rubicund

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His rueful and disconsolate face became jovial and rubicund, his eyes stood out like a lobster's, and his spirits, which before were sunk to the depths of despondency, were now elated in proportion; all day he was singing, whistling, laughing, and telling stories.

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  1. adjective Inclined to a healthy rosiness; ruddy.

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  • They were two stout, rubicund, richly dressed old buffers who might have passed as exact contemporaries. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
  • 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
  • His rueful and disconsolate face became jovial and rubicund, his eyes stood out like a lobster's, and his spirits, which before were sunk to the depths of despondency, were now elated in proportion; all day he was singing, whistling, laughing, and telling stories. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
  • 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
  • And Sir Arthur Sullivan was right when he said, "Musical England owes more to Father Handel than to any other ten men who can be named--he led the way for us all, and cut out a score that we can only imitate At the Court of George of Brunswick, at Hanover, in Seventeen Hundred Nine, was George Frederick Handel, six feet one, weight one hundred eighty, rubicund, rosy, and full of romp, aged twenty-four. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
 

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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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