Read full poem →Greek conception of beauty included two forms--the sensuous and the
spiritual. So richly colored and voluptuous are his descriptions that he
has been called the painters' poet, "the Rubens," and "the Raphael of the
Dictionary Entry
Suggestive of or characterized by full, generous, pleasurable sensation.
In a Sentence
“The plentiful blankets and the voluptuous pillows of the bed called out to my tired body.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. voluptuousbody voluptuouspleasure voluptuousfigure voluptuouswoman voluptuousbeauty voluptuous
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Poetry examples for “voluptuous”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Nightly, half naked, on the stage, for money,
And with voluptuous motions fires the blood
Of inconsiderate youth, is to be held
Read full poem →So, when I am in a voluptuous vein,
I pillow my head on the sweets of the rose,
Read full poem →Beyond a mortal man impassion'd far
At these voluptuous accents, he arose,
Ethereal, flush'd, and like a throbbing star
Read full poem →"I have made," writes Byron (May 25, 1821), "Sardanapalus brave though
voluptuous (as history represents him), and as amiable as my poor pen
could make him." Diodorus, or rather Ctesias, who may have drawn upon
Read full poem →When wanton Wealth her mightiest deeds hath done,[bc]
Meek Peace voluptuous lures was ever wont to shun.
Read full poem →Round western isles, with incense-blossoms bright, _40
Lingering, suspends my soul in its voluptuous flight.
Read full poem →She had long eyelashes, her head was bare, her coarse straight locks
descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reach’d to her feet.
Read full poem →Smile O voluptuous cool-breath’d earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!