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Meanings of voluptuous in anglès
(Of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves.
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Sinònims
Examples for "luxurious"
Examples for "luxurious"
1
The result is long, luxurious sight lines and skies that seem enormous.
2
Consider it a good late night watch for your luxurious Sunday evening.
3
No, no; that would be luxurious; let us chat in the dark.
4
The focus is on health and wellness in the most luxurious sense.
5
Numberless were the luxurious palaces the Moors reared in Portugal and Spain.
1
But it is in all directions fertile and luxuriant in the extreme.
2
By the little seat in the corner the grass is luxuriant already.
3
Numerous natural clearings or prairies relieve the sameness of the luxuriant forests.
4
The country is very like Cuba but more luxuriant in every way.
5
The forest cover is luxuriant, much of it preserved as national land.
1
Those words used to conjure up images of wealth and epicurean tastes.
2
Flying with South African Airways promises to be a truly epicurean experience.
3
We'd better skip that chapter and come straight to the epicurean sage.
4
He gained the distinction of having discovered the epicurean value of sand-dabs.
5
There is no perfectly epicurean corner; there is no perfectly irresponsible place.
1
This inscription was composed by a voluptuary of the school of Petronius.
2
Such a word was a mockery in the mouth of such a voluptuary.
3
Perhaps it is, to the heaven of the modern sybarite, the ethical voluptuary.
4
She appears in the strongest sense a voluptuary and sensualist, but without refinement.
5
The voluptuary, that is why he will not open the door.
1
But never mind me and my sybaritic interpretations of the tender passion.
2
Germanicus Caesar, it was, the royal heir, the profligate, sybaritic younger brother.
3
At Dominic's they could no doubt wallow in sybaritic luxury in Dominic's bed.
4
For a secular monk, Jeffrey placed a sybaritic degree of importance on meals.
5
The idea came to him in the small hours of that last, sybaritic night.
Usage of voluptuous in anglès
1
And in the bewildering voluptuous brightness and luxury of the room G.J.
2
She lived in some undefined expectation of a voluptuous and supreme ideal.
3
All nature lay asleep in voluptuous beauty, veiled in a glorious atmosphere.
4
Then I raised my own eyes; a voluptuous melancholy seized us both.
5
In this heavy shade, the warm air lulled one to voluptuous drowsiness.
6
Big, handsome, voluptuous; just a splendid animal without a spark of soul.
7
Ulysses began to feel a certain boredom in these monotonously voluptuous days.
8
It was a brilliantly coloured solitude, drowsing in a warm, voluptuous silence.
9
Once more the fire of her eyes, this time not only voluptuous.
10
Not a few of the fabliaux are cynically gross-ribald but not voluptuous.
11
Notice the international appeal of voluptuous-bodied superstars like Beyonce and Serena Williams.
12
She was dark, her figure rather full, voluptuous yet perfect in contour.
13
She looked dazzling, radiant, rich, brilliant, voluptuous, all at the same time.
14
It cost Philip Hardin no heart-wrench to part with voluptuous Hortense Duval.
15
It could be called neither neat nor prim, but it was voluptuous.
16
That sort of thing would only please a rich and voluptuous Turk.
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