buxom
Example Sentences
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Spanish novelist Cervantes tells of gaunt, aging and bemused Don Quixote, portly Sancho and buxom Dulcinea.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2020
And there is action aplenty, including John Keene’s busy all-male chorus — some of whom are dressed as buxom, bearded servant women to great effect.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2019
By 1922, Strand was married to the beautiful, buxom, boisterous Rebecca — “Beck” — a daughter of Rachel Samuels, a Jewish opera singer, and Nate Salsbury, Buffalo Bill Cody’s partner in the Wild West show.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2019
By the chapter’s close, with a newly minted identity as a buxom transgender woman, the story of Tish is working out happily.
From Salon • Sep. 1, 2018
My Miss Kirwin, who was a tall, florid, buxom lady with battleship-gray hair, taught civics and current events.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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