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Pear-shaped   /pɛr-ʃeɪpt/   Listen
Pear-shaped

adjective
1.
Having a round shape tapered at one end.
2.
(of sounds) full and rich.  Synonyms: orotund, rotund, round.  "The rotund and reverberating phrase" , "Pear-shaped vowels"






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"Pear-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books



... held her at arms'-length to look at her. She was garbed all ready for dinner in a marvellous garment of shimmering purple, while round her shoulders a scarf of brilliant pale emerald gauze, all fringed with gold, fell in two long ends, and on her neck and in her ears great emeralds gleamed—a pear-shaped one of unusual brilliancy fell at the parting of her waves of hair on to her white smooth forehead. But the colour of her eyes he could not be sure of—only they were two wells of love and ...
— Three Weeks • Elinor Glyn

... upon occasion, across a Sunday-noon, lace-spread breakfast table, when she was slim and cool fingered in orchid-colored draperies, and his newest gift of a six-carat, pear-shaped diamond blazing away on her right hand. "Say, aren't ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst



Words linked to "Pear-shaped" :   round, rotund, orotund, full, circular



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