avoirdupois

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Significantly, the zoo indicated that his increases in avoirdupois do not stem from any sedentary life of lolling about the den, sampling sweet potato, bamboo and biscuits.

From Washington Post

By contrast, their descendants today fret about advancing avoirdupois, a real estate bubble and the high cost of space-age diagnostic scans.

From Washington Post

Insofar as the notion of the American avoirdupois pound has any official meaning, it is by relation to the kilogram, of which, by law, it is 0.45359237.

From The New Yorker

McCormick was a member of the Jolly Fat Men’s Club, a fraternal group that celebrated avoirdupois.

From Washington Post

In recent decades a number of institutions have taken up the challenge of bringing before the public works whose sheer avoirdupois makes them unsuitable even for museums and galleries.

From Economist