Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a large protuberant belly; pot-bellied; paunchy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.
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Examples
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Second, made of lead, bestrides a tun-bellied charger.
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This is one of the most striking passages of the poem; in spite of their abstract names, these sins are tangible realities; the author describes their shape and their costumes; some are bony, others are tun-bellied; singular abstractions with warts on their noses!
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Shakespeare bestowed on Prince Hal's tun-bellied follower the new and deathless name of Falstaff.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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William Warren is dubbed "the tun-bellied manager."
The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885
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Hard by the reformer, a bandy-legged and garlanded Charles Second, made of lead, bestrides a tun-bellied charger.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Charles Second, made of lead, bestrides a tun-bellied charger.
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Thus it was that this grotesque personage, this pale, flabby, tun-bellied citizen became, in one night, a terrible captain, whom nobody dared to ridicule any more.
The Fortune of the Rougons ��mile Zola 1871
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Michiella's aside, 'Till anger seizes him I wait!' created laughter; it came in contrast with an extraordinary pomposity of self-satisfaction exhibited by Count Orso -- the flower-faced, tun-bellied basso, Lebruno.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Michiella's aside, 'Till anger seizes him I wait!' created laughter; it came in contrast with an extraordinary pomposity of self-satisfaction exhibited by Count Orso -- the flower-faced, tun-bellied basso, Lebruno.
Vittoria — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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Michiella's aside, 'Till anger seizes him I wait!' created laughter; it came in contrast with an extraordinary pomposity of self-satisfaction exhibited by Count Orso -- the flower-faced, tun-bellied basso, Lebruno.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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