Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
curvaceous \curvaceous\ adj. having a pronounced womanly shape; having a slender waist with prominent breasts and hips. [chiefly dialect]
Syn: bosomy, buxom, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, U.S. colloquial, from curve + facetious use of -aceous, Modern Latin botanical suffix meaning "of a certain kind." First recorded reference is to Mae West.
Wiktionary
a. (lb en of a woman) Having shapely and voluptuous curves; curvy.
WordNet
adj. (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous, well-endowed]
Usage examples of "curvaceous".
Softly he traced a blue vein that started under the delicate anklebone and disappeared up a curvaceous calf.
The entire body, which stood perhaps 165 centimeters discounting the heels, was curvaceous and sported two rather ample mammallike breasts that were easily seen thanks to the rather slinky black dress the creature wore.
He made a display of leering at the way they hugged Carlines curvaceous body.
She knew how she must appear, in waterlogged jeans and camp shirt, not in the least pretty or delicate or curvaceous in the way that seemed to attract the opposite sex.
I might as well have been, as far as he cared, only a curvaceous, beautiful barbarian servant in Epidaurus, or, in the keeping of Crusaders, or in the tents of Mongols, a Persian dancing girl.
I wondered if the lad who had been her former master, and who now must be a man, and had sold her, had any idea as to the wonder, the surrendered, curvaceous, obedient, orgasmic triumph, which his little Lodge-Pin or Pimples, now a ravishing, helpless beauty, had become.
Somewhere in Nippon, a man in a clean white coverall stands in a room with a fat hose-fed gun vomiting freshly chopped glass fibers slathered with polyester resin onto a curvaceous form.
He waited until a curvaceous young thing had turned him down, then approached while Malcolm was looking bluer than a well-aged round of Roquefort cheese.
One might have thought she was a great lady, and not the insolent, though curvaceous, brat of a boorish sea rover.
Kethry was sweetfaced and curvaceous, with masses of curling amber hair and startling green eyes.