corpulent

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All these ladies were remarkably corpulent, which is considered here as the highest mark of beauty.

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  1. adjective Excessively fat. See Synonyms at fat.

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  1. = Dutch korpulent = German corpulent = Danish korpulent, from French corpulent = Spanish Portuguese Italian corpulento, from Latin corpulentus, fleshy, fat, large, in Late Latin also equivalent to corporeus, physical, corporeal, from corpus, the body: see corpus, corpse.
 

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/ˈkɔrpjulənt/
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