plumpitude

Example Sentences

• "And yet glorious, and beautiful as is the present season, we have a greater fondness for “Appled autumn, golden cheeked and tan;” when the grape is purpling on the trellis and the pippin hangs goldenly from the richly laden boughs; when the ripe yellow corn is bursting its husks, and the big pumpkins are mellowing, rich, and ruddily; when in the forests the ripened nuts drop thick, and the squirrels are gathering in their winter stores; when the birds and the rabbits are of a nice plumpitude, and the fat finned creatures of the stream seem to put on all their attractions to lure us to their destruction—at this season it is glorious to be with nature, to clamber in the brisk air up the mountain side, and to watch the ever-changing hues of the kaleidoscopic forests."
• "An ingenious English inventor proposes to remedy the want of bust in ladies of “a given thinness” by a jacket, to be inflated by the wearer to the proper shape, and, as Willis would say, “plumpitude.”"
• "If Miss McFlimsey has neat ankles, she can wear short dresses: if she has clumsy ones she can wear a trail; if she is inclined to be (pardon the word) “scrawny,” she can indulge in expensive skirts and protuberant “panniers;” if inclined to embonpoint, she can discard these and “gore” her robes; if her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.^([sic])"
• "It is the custom as old as the century for French and English children to wear socks or short stockings until they are old enough to go into jackets and trousers, or, being of the other sex, wear long dresses and put up their hair. The poor little beggars whose parents are rich suffer quite as much with cold legs as the real article that knowns^([sic]) not where his next meal is to come from. It is fashion that dictates this exposure of plumpitude and redness, and it must be said the French child’s bare legs are not uncomely, even though the well clad grown-up shivers at the sight."
• "When I first knew Irma, her bosom plus her plump shoulder blades surrounded her head like a circular shelf. In those days she was a soda fountain girl, and that was so long before the phrase “manpower shortage” had been born one had to be good to hold even that job. Now what has Irma and her plumpitude and milk shakes got to do with fashion you ask."
• "I’m going to start a support group of us fortyish guys with this problem. LUMPS, we’ll call our group. Losing Unwanted Midriff Plumpitude Sensibly."