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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Rubenesque

of a woman's body, "rounded and alluringly plump," 1904, of the type characteristic of the paintings of Flemish painter Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).

Usage examples of "rubenesque".

Fevvers, however, contrived a contemplative and leisurely twenty-five, so that the packed theatre could enjoy the spectacle, as in slow motion, of every tense muscle straining in her Rubenesque form.

For example the rubenesque one tried to remain faithful to our parents sexual natures.

It was the artless gesture of the ingenue, inappropriate for this Rubenesque wife and mother, and yet she had more than enough charm to carry it off.

When his Knights clamped irons around her wrists, he marched forward and ripped the disguise until it fell in tatters around her feet, revealing a Rubenesque figure with flaming red curls covering her pussy.

I approached the bed, a Rubenesque black woman with pure white hair and flickering eyelids startled me.

Risible because Rubenesque blonds probably ought not to squeeze themselves into sausage casings, even for the president of the United States.