steatopygia
noun
extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
steatopygous
-
a word derived from
steatopygia.
Example Sentences
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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
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
One night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 T. Eric (Thomas Eric) Peet
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 Aldous Huxley
