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buxomness

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bux·om  (bksm)
adj.
1.
a. Healthily plump and ample of figure: "A generation ago, fat babies were considered healthy and buxom actresses were popular, but society has since come to worship thinness" Robert A. Hamilton.
b. Full-bosomed.
2. Archaic Lively, vivacious, and gay.
3. Obsolete Obedient; yielding; pliant.
[Middle English, obedient, from Old English *bhsum, from bgan, to bend, submit; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]
buxom·ly adv.
buxom·ness n.
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Noun1.buxomness - the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed
embonpoint, plumpness, roundness - the bodily property of being well rounded
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Unlike France's Marianne, America's Puritan Liberty flaunted no bare breasts, but the accentuation of her clothed but well-endowed buxomness left little for the imagination.
A History of the Breast by Roberts, Benjamin / Journal of Social History
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