round-backed

• “His innovations in propeller designs helped him to create round-backed Ovation guitars, among the most popular instruments made in the U.S.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Helicopter Designer and Guitar Hero

• “Andela's eighth-floor apartment was cosy, spick and furnished in a style from around 1974 (western calendar) – bamboo-effect bookshelves rising to the ceiling, round-backed wickery chairs, myriad spider plants.”

  The Guardian: Once upon a life: Toby Litt

• “He was best known for his facility on the lute, a round-backed instrument with a history reaching back to Greek mythology.”

  The Washington Post: James Tyler, luntenist and master of early instruments, helped preserve music of ancient era

• “The round-backed Sister, her dangling arm swinging, shuffled along in front of Nicci, pulling her by her hand, leading her through grand rooms, up stairways, and down hallways.”

  Fictionaut: Men Don't Leave Me

• “Coralie flung herself into the depths of a settee, and bade Camusot seat himself in the gondole, a round-backed chair that stood opposite.”

  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

• “One black gap in the long line of grey, round-backed airships marked the position from which the Vaterland had come.”

  The War in the Air

• “He hit a few keys on a laptop set up on a low table, which sat between two round-backed couchesthe only furniture in the room.”

  Simon & Schuster: Untouchable

• “They came upon two schools of round-backed river monsters.”

  Genellan- Planetfall

• “The crawfish has a tail, and five fins on it; and the round-backed carid has a tail and four fins; the squilla also has fins at the tail on either side.”

  The History of Animals

• “She handed Josh a sugar bowl, with white squares of lump sugar glistening like snow, and a couple of round-backed, almost S-shaped little teaspoons.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ishmael

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