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Meanings of plumpness in English

The bodily property of being well rounded.

Usage of plumpness in English
1
The grains should then be counted and their plumpness and size observed.
Agriculture for Beginners / Revised Edition
2
He had not guessed she was thus acutely sensitive concerning her plumpness.
Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
3
His limbs, only a year before, had been rounded even to plumpness.
Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
4
Her figure was going just a bit to plumpness, but still quite elegant.
The Oracle Glass
5
He still has the fairness, the plumpness, the pleasant blue eyes.
Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood
6
Her figure had all the beauty of great plumpness and youthfulness.
Five Nights: A Novel
7
His thin little figure was fast taking on plumpness; he was brown, bright-eyed.
Many Kingdoms
8
The idea of plumpness had a new significance here- ahorriblesignificance.
The Chessmen of Mars
9
The guard notices at once that the plumpness-thinness factor has diminished in importance.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
10
She was less plain than the others, and had not outgrown her plumpness.
Esther : a book for girls
11
Usually his young face showed strong and agreeable lines under a slight plumpness.
Non-Stop
12
The tech-man was short, and his skin glistened with well-kept plumpness.
Foundation
13
She was short rather than small, and hovered audaciously between plumpness and width.
The Beautiful and Damned
14
Nevertheless, Braddock's plumpness did away to a considerable extent with his aggressive look.
The Green Mummy
15
May plumpness be their portion, and they never hanged for it!
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
16
They give plumpness and roundness to the thin; they make hips, shoulders-everything ,infact.
Parisian Points of View
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