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rotundro‧tund /rəʊˈtʌnd $ roʊ-/ adjective rotundOrigin: 1400-1500 Latin rotundus; ➔ ROUND2 - 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 stout—rotundity noun [uncountable] |