rubicund
adjective
red or reddish; ruddy.
rubicundity
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a word derived from
rubicund.
Example Sentences
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A neck like that of a rhinoceros sat piled between his "Atlantean shoulders," and bore upon its tower-like and sturdy stem, a countenance prepossessing from its good-humour, and amazing for its plumpness and rubicundity.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829 by Various
Macaulay spoke of his "rector-like amplitude and rubicundity."
From Sydney Smith by George William Erskine Russell
"Who are you?" said Wildeve, discerning by the candlelight an obscure rubicundity of person in his companion.
From The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
And presently Master Martin--to whom they had caused their coming to be announced--came out to them, in festal attire, and with no small amount of rubicundity of nose and cheeks.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
His hunch has lost its fullness; his nose, its rubicundity; and his profligacy, its point.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
