Both Uses of
rotund
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 7 *
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".