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# rubenesque

«rubenesque» in Mova's school dictionary: **of a woman: plump, with a full, rounded figure, like the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (rubenesque; also Rubenesque)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism, polite) of a woman: plump, with a full, rounded figure, like the women in the paintings of the artist Rubens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubenesque/#m1)

2) in the style of the painter Peter Paul Rubens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubenesque/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in fashion, art writing and polite description to describe a larger woman kindly and admiringly; formal, literary, all regions. It can still feel like a comment on someone's body.

### examples

- The painting shows a rubenesque goddess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubenesque/#x1)
- The magazine called the actress "rubenesque". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubenesque/#x2)
- In art class we looked at Rubenesque figures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubenesque/#x3)
- The shop sells clothes for rubenesque figures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubenesque/#x4)
- "Rubenesque is a fancy word for plump," explained the teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubenesque/#x5)
- Some people find the word flattering, others find it rude. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubenesque/#x6)

### note

Stands for "plump" or "fat" but sounds artistic. Often written with a capital R (from a name). Comments on people's bodies can hurt, even with a kind word.

### In the corpora

- ["Rubenesque" means plump and attractive, after the painter Rubens, who painted round women.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rubenesque» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rubenesque/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.