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Definition
over weight or round in shape — especially of a person
- Behind the city swept the rotund upland of St Catherine's Hill; further off, landscape beyond landscape, till the horizon was lost in the radiance of the sun hanging above it.7 — Fulfilment (98% in)
- To Tess's horror the dark queen began stripping off the bodice of her gown—which for the added reason of its ridiculed condition she was only too glad to be free of—till she had bared her plump neck, shoulders, and arms to the moonshine, under which they looked as luminous and beautiful as some Praxitelean creation, in their possession of the faultless rotundities of a lusty country-girl.1 — The Maiden (90% in)
There are no more uses of "rotund" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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