Meaning of steatopygous | Babel Free

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Pertaining to steatopygia; having fat or prominent buttocks.

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“[W]e may refer⟳ to some unknown condition of climate, the steatopygous deformities of the Bushmen. As these remarkable depositions of fat are not the peculiarity of one tribe, namely the Saabs, [...] we have⟳ no room for doubt⟳ that the cause of the phenomenon is some influence⟳ connected with climate and situation.”

“Living in rooms opposite these slave girls, and seeing them at all hours of the day and night, I had frequent opportunities of studying them. They were average specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed⟳, broad-shouldered, thin-flanked, fine-limbed, and with haunches of prodigious size.”

“Perhaps, he now felt, if this body he held could become⟳—just for twenty or thirty seconds—one of those harem dreams of his, pampered, pouting, perfumed, steatopygous, he could, he was sure, achieve⟳ what it was a plain duty, apart from all questions of gratification, to achieve⟳.”

“At his side, Amuta and a steatopygous twelve-year-old in a striped shift.”

“And finally there is the old crone of death, the steatopygous figure⟳ with pointed feet, that goes all the way back to the Paleolithic settlement of Dolne Vestonice.”

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