rotund

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No zephyr dared to disturb the leaves or the glassy water; great clouds hung in the bright blue sky--rotund, fat, and heavy, like mountains of wool or butter.

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  1. adjective Rounded in figure; plump. See Synonyms at fat.
  2. adjective Having a full, rich sound; sonorous.

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  • Short, rotund, and irrepressibly genial, the innkeeper bowed to them both. —  Stephanie Laurens - A Fine Passion
  • He fell to watching the homely chemist with gimlet intensity Doc Savage went downstairs with the boy THE candy-shop proprietor was an advertisement for his business--rotund, pink, cherubic. —  109 - The Too-Wise Owl
  • Pilate was depicted as a rotund, jocose, cynical man of the world; Jesus, as a street preacher in sordid garments, with unkempt hair flowing over his haggard face,—a peasant fanatic brought in by the police. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V2
  • For a rotund, peg-legged demon this is no easy task. —  Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions
  • Burgess was a rotund, bellicose figure with a florid turn of phrase and a knack for generating media coverage. —  The Australian | News |
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin rotundus; see ret- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French rond, Old French roond, roont = Provencal redon, redun = Catalan redó, rodó = Spanish Portuguese rotundo, redondo = Italian rotondo, ritondo, round, from Latin rotundus, like a wheel, round, circular, spherical, from rota, a wheel: see rota, and cf. round, an earlier form of the word.
  2. from French rotonde, from Italian rotonda, a rotunda: see rotunda.
 

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