Rubenesque

American  

[roo-buh-nesk] / ˌru bəˈnɛsk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the painter Peter Paul Rubens or his works, which feature full-figured women.

2. (of a woman's figure) plump but shapely; curvaceous.

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Rubenesque British  

/ ˌruːbəˌnɛsk /

adjective

1. (of a woman) having the physique associated with Rubens' portraits of women; plump and attractive

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Etymology

Origin of Rubenesque

1815–20; Ruben(s) ( def. ) + -esque ( def. ); the 's' is almost always dropped because Rubensesque is hard to pronounce

Example Sentences

His 2002 book “Paris + Klein” — showing Rubenesque women in a Turkish bath, African-born protesters demanding their rights, Chinese New Year celebrations — spurned the romanticized vision of the City of Lights.

From Washington Post

Bulked up with spawn eggs, they have transformed from summer slim to a possible world record Rubenesque.

From Los Angeles Times

Decked out in Oldham’s casual pearls — a red-haired, mustached man in blue eyeshadow, a Rubenesque Black woman with a bleached buzz cut, a white brunette with tattoos and unshaven armpits — they all blow kisses to the camera.

From Los Angeles Times

She was a black and white mostly beagle who ran toward Rubenesque in her proportions but maintained a vertical leap like Randy Moss when it was time to hop on the foot of your bed at night.

From Fox News

Her point is that super-high-waisted jeans—a cut that Rosen first began pushing in the early two-thousands, when she owned a cult-popular downtown shop called the Good the Bad & the Ugly—make everyone’s rump look rounded and Rubenesque.

From The New Yorker