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curvaceousness

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cur·va·ceous  (kûr-vshs)
adj.
Having the curves of a full or voluptuous figure.
cur·vaceous·ly adv.
cur·vaceous·ness n.
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Noun1.curvaceousness - the quality of having a well-rounded body
shapeliness, voluptuousness
pulchritude - physical beauty (especially of a woman)


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Many Eastern European women had identifiable "full breasts and solid frames," and when they embraced corsets to recompose that natural figure, they indirectly subjugated their identity in favor of an American ideal of beauty which privileged curvaceousness over the women's "solid frame" (Schreier 68).
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