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UK
/bˈʌksəm/
]
[ US /ˈbəksəm/ ]
[ US /ˈbəksəm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous
a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular -
(of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes
a curvy young woman in a tight dress
How To Use buxom In A Sentence
- We have indeed reached some significant milestones around here of late, and it's high time we celebrated with a flagon of ale, a buxom wench or two, and our very first CONTEST on CROM! Archive 2010-03-01
- The bosom is back, apparently, thanks to Mad Men's buxom star. Big breasts are the new small breasts
- Two competing ideal female body types developed: the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.
- The advertising campaign features a buxom Argentine model in a swimsuit giving the camera her loveliest come-hither look.
- A buxom woman sat at the piano banging out popular music hall tunes.
- So it went through the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, when female film stars wrapped their chests in sackcloth lest they appear buxom, which was tantamount to being bourgeois.
- Personnel were walking every which way behind the command station, which held a beautiful, buxom blonde wearing captain's pips.
- The person I mean was a buxom dame of about thirty, her fingers loaded with many a silver ring, and three or four of gold; her ankles liberally displayed from under her numerous blue, white, and scarlet; short petticoats, and attired in hose of the finest and whitest lamb's-wool, which arose from shoes of Spanish cordwain, fastened with silver buckles. Redgauntlet
- These women are more buxom and much thinner than I can even pretend to be.
- The women, in tunics, were buxom peasants-no tall, willowy jungle princesses here; their voices, shrill and sharp, floated across the stream as they fetched water or busied themselves at the fires, with the kidneys and kedgeree, no doubt. Isabelle