Rubenesque
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the painter Peter Paul Rubens or his works, which feature full-figured women.
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(of a woman's figure) plump but shapely; curvaceous.
adjective
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
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Bulked up with spawn eggs, they have transformed from summer slim to a possible world record Rubenesque.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2022
A modest space with small religious paintings and sketches from the 1840s and ’50s raises the emotional pitch with amazing Lamentations and Pietas, and a Rubenesque sketch for a Crucifix.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2018
Rubenesque, with gossamer skin, they don’t stand by, waiting for you to eat whenever you want; these delicate beauties are only available in season, from mid-June through August.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2017
She posed Gerardo Alatorre, a tattooed, Rubenesque man, with glitter sprinkled in his beard wearing a flower crown and loincloth.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2016
The hardest thing is to fit out his patrons with street gowns that will be conventional, and yet Rubenesque.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.
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