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cur·va·ceous
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curvaceously (adv.), curvaceousness (n.)
adjective
having or suggesting the curves of a well-proportioned feminine figure The curvaceous wooden mermaid shown on the cover … , forever staring into a mirror and waiting to comb her wind-tossed hair, was found in Wayland, Massachusetts …—Robert Shaw
curvaceous hips
having a smoothly curving form or shape Rounded windows with decorative surrounds predominate, as do curvaceous brackets under the exterior eaves.—The Boston Sunday Globe
… the [golf] course sits on a curvaceous mound of trash some 40 feet deep.—Jessica Snyder Sachs
1936年,美国俚语,来自 curve(n.)+滑稽使用的 -aceous,这是现代拉丁植物学后缀,意思是“某种类型的”。第一个记录的引用出现在《屏幕书》杂志上,写到了梅·韦斯特。
The first known use of curvaceous was in 1933
1 And please don’t miss the bathrooms if you like curvaceous fiberglass furniture and swiftly changing colors.
2 The biker aesthetic continues inside: engine parts behind a curvaceous P-shaped zinc bar, scarred wooden floors salvaged from an auto shop, and leather banquettes built by a motorcycle maker.
3 Sunlight filters through perforations in the curvaceous cast-iron and concrete facade, creating dappled patterns in halls and guest rooms and providing natural light within the energy-efficient building.
4 Grange's handle was as curvaceous as Jessica Rabbit and as ergonomic as a pebble in the hand – much like one of his later door handles for Izé.
5 De Waart still knows how to make it move and groove, right down to the tapered-off percussion workout at the end, and he now brings out more crystalline detail and curvaceous phrasing in the winds.
6 This sculptor’s primary subject — the extravagantly curvaceous female form familiar from his bronzes, seen this time from the back — unfurls in a series of arcing lines, something like a musical staff made flesh.
7 The large, curvaceous swimming pool leads straight down to the beach, while most of the 30 suites have a private plunge pool and their own cascading “waterfall”.
8 In 1961, he introduced a stylized, curvaceous silhouette, which he called the Walking Woman, that would be his trademark for much of the 1960s.
9 My idea of an erotic message was a perfumed handwritten letter with curvaceous letters lacing the page, not a texted iPhone flora selfie, or even an analog portrait on my Rolleiflex.
10 The protagonist is a curvaceous, bespectacled bombshell whose skintight suit is actually her hair, which strips off her body to create big weapons.
11 Then again, they’re all former showgirls now in a town that continues to cherish them as curvaceous mascots, as living symbols of a beloved time that’s gone.
12 The grand generalizing and curvaceous amplitude of the baroque.
13 Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes.
好莱坞到处是身材正点的金发美女。
14 The mirrors around the little room revealed a slim, curvaceous figure hugged snugly inside the dress.
周围的小房间里的镜子透露苗条,婀娜的身材紧贴拥抱里面的礼服。
15 The vaunted British automaker is finally welcoming residents into its curvaceous 66-story tower at 300 Biscayne Boulevard Way, a venture that was a whopping eight years in the making.
16 Threaded with green beans, the curvaceous towers punctuate the puffs of golden ‘Sum and Substance’ hosta lapping up against the driveway.
17 Sage’s paintings look stereotypically masculine, with their torpedo-shaped towers and architectonic scaffolds, in contrast to Tanguy’s petite and curvaceous “personages.”
18 Once Badu gets all the way down to her curvaceous birthday suit, a gunshot rings out and her body collapses on to the sidewalk, as blue blood spills out to form the word "groupthink."
19 Infiniti cars are "very curvaceous", he said, but this just makes some people think the cars "look fat".
20 The curvaceous new Premier Tower, located in Melbourne, Australia, and designed by the architecture firm Elenberg Fraser, was modeled after the singer’s famous form.