What's the difference between buxom and curvy?

Buxom


Definition:

  • (a.) Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
  • (a.) Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are the early "fairy" paintings shown in London in 1841-42 – in a genre then very fashionable in which the fairy folk are of different sizes, from tiny to buxom, and dance and fly in animated crowds among vegetation that dwarfs them.
  • (2) His wishes were fulfilled as the industry prudently moved away from the sombre neo-realism of the immediate postwar years towards mildly saucy comedies and the sub-De Mille-style epics, set in antiquity with their cast of thousands of buxom Roman ladies.
  • (3) Historian Tom Booker says : "Future civilisations will look back at our news websites and think our academics were all skinny, buxom females with borderline lesbian tendencies."
  • (4) Arsène Wenger Raised the temperature by posing for photos in retro Speedos on the beach – then performed a Robin van Persie tribute header and kissed a Brazilian comedy buxom housewife character called Milonga during a game of beach volleyball.
  • (5) Except that he's barely deigning to speak, communicating his thoughts and wishes through buxom Beyonce.
  • (6) The comment piece argues that it "becomes difficult to argue the necessity of honouring 'do not publish' conventions when royals like Prince Harry are photographed cavorting naked in Vegas with buxom women".

Curvy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nobody would be able to tell, because while I’m certainly not fat, I’m quite curvy with a big bottom and I really don’t look as if I have an eating disorder.
  • (2) It’s not about a token nod to curvy girls …”, Cosmo ‘s editor, Bronwyn McCahon, explains in her campaign launch letter : “Showcasing body diversity at both ends of the spectrum has become part of Cosmo’s DNA.
  • (3) You’ll probably get a clothes chain asking you to design a range for “curvy” women … I got some free clothing in Australia – that was amazing.
  • (4) For example, Klein recently told a clothing store clerk she’d just had a baby even though her son was already more than a year old because nothing in the boutique fit her curvy body.
  • (5) Barbie finally becomes a real girl – with more realistic figure and skin colours Read more Barbie has released three new Barbie body shapes: tall, curvy and petite.
  • (6) Have curvy women only appeared in the past five years?
  • (7) By controlling confounding effects due to redundancy, the possibility that the outcomes might be related to the balance of linear and curvi-linear target features was strengthened.
  • (8) Once they decide what type of measurement best fits their customer (straight bodied, curvy, etc) they hire a fit model, who is usually a size four or six to fit the sample on.
  • (9) Photograph: Barbie After a survey on the fashion desk, we have decided that we particularly like the vibe of Everyday Chic Curvy Barbie, who has boldly teamed distressed cropped jeans with lace-up black brogues.
  • (10) These opposing actions are in competition at different dose levels of thyroxine, and may contribute not only to augmentation or suppression of thyrotrophin, but also to the curvi-linear pattern of fall.
  • (11) Overall, Lululemon's good profits close out a bad year for curvy women.
  • (12) It looks like a modernist sculpture, but the curvy abstract forms are functional, housing terraces-cum-lookouts with dramatic views of the coastline.
  • (13) She said: “I’m pretty lucky that I only get comments like this occasionally but I have many curvy blogger friends who have this happen all the time, either publicly or by email, so I hear about it very frequently.” And she says the sewing blogger community is generally very body positive.
  • (14) Now girls can finally see themselves reflected in the toys, can imagine their own beautiful brown eyed, blue haired, curvy, stylish selves sitting in the Ferrari and pulling up next to their dream home in a climate where many women are being more mindful of what imagery they pass on to their daughters, and rejecting the kind of beauty that Barbie has come to represent and “reflect”.
  • (15) Ring or curvi-linear calcification in not a reliable sign of a cyst.
  • (16) Calcified cyst walls appear as fine, even, curvi-linear lines, Dense, irregular and extensive calcification indicates a solid tumour.
  • (17) Brown skin, brown eyes, full lips, curvy waist and that different shaped nose.
  • (18) Both cholesterol and phospholipid outputs were coupled to biliary bile salt output in a curvi-linear relationship which could be fitted by rectangular hyperbolae, in the animals fed with different plant steroids.
  • (19) Hers is not a label specifically aimed at curvy or plus-sized women, but at all women.
  • (20) What about – dare I say it – women who are both short and curvy?

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