paunches
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Loved ones and fellow soldiers, many their age or older, with paunches and fraying hair, were the first to mourn.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
The camera cuts to the group—fortysomethings, a few with paunches and shaggy wigs.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 31, 2015
Shoulders could be broadened, eyes brightened, paunches flattened and foreheads heightened.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2014
On a recent day, the park buzzed with visitors and self-styled, middle-aged desperadoes sporting leather chaps and paunches.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2011
Shakespeare says fat paunches make lean pates, but this is taken from a Greek proverb.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Charles Greville
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