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UK
/ɹˈuːbɪkˌʌnd/
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ADJECTIVE
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inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
a ruddy complexion
a fresh and sanguine complexion
Santa's rubicund cheeks
How To Use rubicund In A Sentence
- The rubicund moon-head goes wagging; darker beams the copper visage, like unscoured copper; in the glazed eye is disquietude; he rolls uneasy in his seat, as if he meant something. The French Revolution
- Turn the clock back 20 years and peer into the grand kitchens of hotels and country houses and you'll see a tubby chef with rubicund face, multiple chins, and a sheen of sweat on his brow.
- You'd think they couldn't ruin a steak, surely there's a rubicund, porky chef, with a hat, prodding and turning steaks over a hot griddle.
- The expression of his countenance would have been bluff but for a certain sinister glance, and his complexion might have been called rubicund but for a considerable tinge of bilious yellow. Lavengro
- Tench saw it in his eyes but he didn't flinch, nor did the amiable Pickwickian smile fade from his round and rubicund face. THE ONLY GAME
- The same goes for rubious, no less shapely on the tongue than rubicund. The Times Literary Supplement
- He has a face of that rubicund, knobby type I have heard an indignant mineralogist speak of as botryoidal, and about it waves a quantity of disorderly blond hair. A Modern Utopia
- A bearded, rubicund, large man who also specialises in truffles and wild asparagus, there is something of the forest about him, something gnomishly mysterious.
- Santa's rubicund cheeks
- You'd think they couldn't ruin a steak, surely there's a rubicund, porky chef, with a hat, prodding and turning steaks over a hot griddle.