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单词 rotundity
释义
rotundro‧tund /rəʊˈtʌnd $ roʊ-/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINrotund
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin rotundus; ROUND2
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Anything that has ornate carving or gilding, a rotund profile or shapely curved legs is ideal.
  • In casting the Sensorites Mervyn Pinfield went deliberately for older, more rotund actors.
  • In place of a wand she had housemaids, parlor maids, laundresses, cooks, and a rotund chauffeur named Courtney.
  • It was rust-red and black with its rotund decay, smelling dank and casting a shell-shadow.
  • Sadly, the forty-five-year-old's rotund physique proved too much and he was forced to retire for an early bath.
  • She was a short, gray-haired, rotund woman of weary carriage and a dignity appropriate to her remarkable birth.
  • The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner.
  • The picture shows him as a stocky, almost rotund man.
having a fat round body – used humorously SYN  stoutrotundity noun [uncountable]
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