Adjective : a rubicund complexion. From Dictionary.com.
He wore no gloves; but the bloated rubicundity of his hands was relieved by. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
As both these worthies were distinguished by that rubicundity of face with which it is marked, the reader may decree the honour of a sitting to which he pleases. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
"Atlantean shoulders," and bore upon its tower-like and sturdy stem, a countenance prepossessing from its good-humour, and amazing for its plumpness and rubicundity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829] Reference
He was a hale man, and well preserved for his time of life; but nevertheless, the extra rubicundity of his face, and certain incipient pimply excrescences about his nose, gave tokens that he lived too freely. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
Macaulay spoke of his “rector-like amplitude and rubicundity.”. From Wordnik.com. [Sydney Smith]
"Who are you?" said Wildeve, discerning by the candle - light an obscure rubicundity of person in his companion. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
For thirty years his mottled nose and the rubicundity of his cheeks were the ineffaceable ensigns of his intemperance. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Scoundrels] Reference
The Clive has been desperately nervous; but I have convinced her it did not become her, and she has recovered her rubicundity. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
Elsa leaned upon her elbows, and she smiled a little as she noted that the purple had gone from his nose and that it had resumed its accustomed rubicundity. From Wordnik.com. [Parrot & Co.] Reference
Nothing can present a more striking contrast to his rapid, loud, laughing utterance, and his rector - like amplitude and rubicundity, than the low, slow, emphatic tone, and the corpse-like face of Rogers. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
Todd as she stood, or as she sat, a firmness which showed itself even in her rotundity, a vigour in the very rubicundity of her cheek which was apt to quell the spirit of those who would fain have interfered with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
The natural rubicundity of his countenance was darkened to a deep purple tint, like that of a full-blown peony, while his ludicrous dignity was augmented by a shining suit of sables, in which his portly person was invested. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
Mayor might lay in a supply of the best vintage he could find, and trust his good name to posterity to the credit of that wine; and so he would be kindly and warmly remembered long after his own nose had lost its rubicundity. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
I do not wish you to parade your rubicundity and gray hairs through the mobs and assemblies of London; I should think you bestowed them as ill as on Greatworth; but you might find a few rational creatures here, who are heartily tired of what are called our pleasures, and who would be glad to have you in their chimney-corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
Now, another woman would not have failed to notice the fatal tendency towards rubicundity that marks Miss Maliphant's nose whenever ---- ". From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
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