full-figured

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full-figured (not comparable)

  1. (of a person, especially a woman) Fat; plump.
    • 2008 June 3, Kira Cochrane, “Don't call me curvy. Or big-boned. Or 'real'”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 24 June 2008:
      I can honestly say that my attitude to my body became markedly better when I accepted that I was fat. . . . Often more offensive terms are used. Full-figured, big-boned, voluptuous, curvaceous, and my least favourite: "real woman".

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