buxom

[US]/ˈbʌksəm/
[UK]/ˈbʌksəm/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. (of a woman) plump and attractive; healthily plump.

Example Sentences

Jane is a buxom blond.

the buxom air, embalm'd with odours.

A buxom widow must be either married,buried or shut up in a convent.

He still pictured her as buxom, high-colored, lively and a little blowsy.

Indeed the buxom blonde, who sniffled disingenuously during the hearings, has hardly been a sympathetic figure.

Real-world Examples

" Christian don't know the fun o't, and 'twould be a fine sight for him, " said a buxom woman.

Source: Returning Home

Her portrait of Auntie Suzy, a buxom woman fond of her pipe and brandy, is particularly evocative.

Source: The Economist Culture

Vassilissa, silent, serious, of the same age as her mistress, buxom, but faded with much confinement indoors, would bring in the silver service with the steaming coffee.

Source: Cliff (Part 1)

When I arrived I found him seated in a smoke-laden atmosphere, with an elderly, motherly woman of the buxom landlady type in the corresponding chair in front of him.

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: New Cases (Part Two)

But as for Dinah, poor child, she's niver likely to be buxom as long as she'll make her dinner o' cake and water, for the sake o' giving to them as want.

Source: Adam Bede (Part Two)

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