Both Uses of
rotund
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- The greatest manufacturer is but a busier Sam Clark, and all the rotund senators and presidents are village lawyers and bankers grown nine feet tall.†
Chpt 22 *
- But his chuckle was not so rotund, and he was very attentive to the ammeter.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(rotund) over weight or round in shape -- especially of a person
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, rotund can reference full or rich sound -- as in "a rotund voice".