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PORTLY
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Irregular inflected forms: portlier , portliest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Euphemisms for 'fat'
Example:
men are portly and women are stout
Synonyms:
portly; stout
Classified under:
Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Context examples:
Alleyne gazed upon the scene—the portly velvet-clad official, the knot of hard-faced archers with their hands to the bridles of their horses, the thief with his arms trussed back and his doublet turned down upon his shoulders.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the further end, in two high chairs as large as that of the Abbot, though hardly as elaborately carved, sat the master of the novices and the chancellor, the latter a broad and portly priest, with dark mirthful eyes and a thick outgrowth of crisp black hair all round his tonsured head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The breeze blew, the sail bellied, over heeled the portly vessel, and away she plunged through the smooth blue rollers, amid the clang of the minstrels on her poop and the shouting of the black crowd who fringed the yellow beach.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
