rubicund

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His face was rubicund, and not without keenness; but the most remarkable thing about him was the crown of his head, which was bald, and shone like polished ivory, nothing more white, smooth, and lustrous.

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  1. adjective Inclined to a healthy rosiness; ruddy.

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  • His face, latterly, became somewhat rubicund, and his utterance so confused, that Johnson compared it to the gobbling of a turkey. —  Lives of the English Poets
  • And I would have to say Yes, he's done this before. —  A Traitor to Memory
  • It was to the Bardsley Square Police Station that he made his way, and he found the jovial, rubicund, black-moustached Inspector Murphy seated at his desk. —  The Land of Mist
  • His face was rubicund, and not without keenness; but the most remarkable thing about him was the crown of his head, which was bald, and shone like polished ivory, nothing more white, smooth, and lustrous. —  Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
  • A kind, rubicund, moon-round face, full of large blue eyes smiling a gentle and kindly welcome ... if the face of Shelley's father, plump and methodic-oracular, could have been joined to the wild, shining ecstasy of Shelley's countenance itself — you would have had Mackworth's face before its time. —  Tramping on Life
 

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  1. Latin rubicundus; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French rubicunde, rubicond, French rubicond = Spanish Portuguese rubicundo = Italian rubicondo, from Latin rubicundus, very red, from rubere, be red: see ruby.
 

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/ˈrubɪkənd/
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