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voluptuous Adjective 1. (of a woman) sexually alluring because of the fullness of her figure 2. pleasing to the senses: voluptuous yellow peaches voluptuously adv
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voluptuous adjective 1. buxom, shapely, curvaceous, erotic, ample, enticing, provocative, seductive (informal) well-stacked Brit. (slang) full-bosomed adjective 2. sensual, luxurious, self-indulgent, hedonistic, sybaritic, epicurean, licentious, bacchanalian, pleasure-loving << OPPOSITE abstemious Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In the morning of life they are rapt by intoxicating visions of some great haberdashery business, beckoned to by the voluptuous enticements of the legal profession, or maybe the Holy Grail they forswear all else to seek is a snug editorial chair. Well, in all these recognitions and disgraces it is that there lies a voluptuous pleasure. You must except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half partner of the empire of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawgiver; whereof the former was indeed a voluptuous man, and inordinate; but the latter was an austere and wise man: and therefore it seems (though rarely) that love can find entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept. |
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