curvaceous:
Or: curvesome / curvy , describes a fine-figured woman with an hour-glass physique. Quotes:(1) Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933): ' A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles .'
(2) The Sin Killer (Walter Huston) to young Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) in Duel in the Sun (1946): ' Pearl, you're curved in the flesh of temptation . Resistance is going to be a darn sight harder for you than for females protected by the shape of sows .'
(3) Archie Rice (Laurence Olivier) about himself in The Entertainer (1960): ' Your old-man may be a square but he still goes for the curves .'
(4) Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) describing Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley) in The Naked Gun (1988): ' Her hair was the color of gold in old paintings. She had a full set of curves and the kind of legs you'd kinda love to suck on for a day. She was giving me a look I could feel in my hip pocket .'
(5) Joe (Bruce Boxleitner) in The Babe (1992): ' She's got more curves than a scenic highway .'
See Also: armful, built like a brick shithouse
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