callipygian
Definitions
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- adjective Having beautifully shaped buttocks.
Examples
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Spring suits are young with little jackets curving just to the top of the hipbones. The skirts, slim as slivers, call for callipygian hips. That's an intriguing word, callipygian, and it fits the shapely picture required by spring fashions.
Ida Jean Kain, 'How to Keep in Trim,' The Portsmouth Times, March 15, 1957
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Walter Kerr, surely the most gracious and kindly of drama critics, once rhapsodized on the 'callipygian charms' of dancer Gwen Verdon, which was getting physical below the belt.
Hugh A. Mullian, 'The Critics' Dilemma,' Reading Eagle, November 28, 1977
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The legend of the Callipygian Venus is familiar to all. No shame saw the Greeks of the golden period in part of God's handiwork.
Note
'Callipygian' comes from a Greek phrase meaning (what else) 'beautiful buttocks.'
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