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Meanings of voluptuousness in English

Catalan
esponera

The property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses.

esponera
Catalan
voluptuositat

The quality of having a well-rounded body.

voluptuositat
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Examples for "shapeliness"
Examples for "shapeliness"
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Hence an admirable clearness and shapeliness in the criticism of France.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 / A Magazine ...
2
The current from the south pares the spit, preserving its shapeliness.
Tropic Days
3
The greatness and shapeliness of his head could not be overlooked.
Children of the Market Place
4
There seems a chance for real shapeliness if the foundations are all honest-doesn'tthere?
The Bent Twig
5
Chester saw their soft shapeliness, and noted also that there were no rings on them.
Story of Chester Lawrence / Being the Completed Account of One w...
1
On Wednesday, Facebook user Jan Shedd stewed in frustration over the curvaceousness of a stunning reporter.
Ebony

The quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)

Usage of voluptuousness in English
1
In sermons or novels, however, voluptuousness is always true to its text.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / With Strictures on Politi...
2
We perceive, from the most frightful examples, that voluptuousness leads to crime.
A Mummer's Tale
3
Words may not be used to tell of the voluptuousness of the dance.
Ben-Hur
4
An unforced, gritty realism was complemented, in her case, with a natural voluptuousness.
The Guardian
5
The sight of his form troubled the voluptuousness of this mediation.
Madame Bovary
6
Their years glided by in a soft dream of sensual and intellectual voluptuousness.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
7
You will find nothing in any voluptuousness fit to be compared to it.
Saint Augustin
8
The voluptuousness of the sensation cannot be known by born freemen.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
9
The heart draws back before voluptuousness only to love the more.
Les Misérables
10
It has cushions which simply reek of oriental voluptuousness and cruelty.
Dope
11
Scarcely human beings, they were useful to voluptuousness and to religion.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
12
There was a bond between them, music,-themost refined form of sensual voluptuousness.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
13
A strange feeling, half of languor, half of voluptuousness, steals over my senses!
The Infernal Marriage
14
She did not indulge in the enervating voluptuousness of grief.
The Old Wives' Tale
15
Thought is the toil of the intelligence, reverie its voluptuousness.
Les Misérables
16
Pursue no longer the slippery path of frivolity and voluptuousness.
Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel
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