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One night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Curators who, given the ticket, would cross the Atlantic to admire some steatopygous bauble by Niki de Saint-Phalle would hardly have crossed the street to see an Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like the bulbous backside of a Cadillac in America 20 years ago, the distended cabbage and the steatopygous turnip are images of Good Government.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now, thanks to massage, powerful corsets, skin foods, and powder, she is still a beauty—a beauty of the type Italians admire, cushioned, steatopygous.

From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous

Another hypothesis is that they represent not a truly steatopygous type of women, but only an abnormally fat type.

From Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by Peet, T. Eric (Thomas Eric)