Fat Words?

I would just like to post these 2 words. I knew about Rubenesque (and I've used that several times) but I'd like to promote appreciation of the beauty of the 'full-figured' woman. *cough. cough*

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zaftig \ZAHF-tig\ adjective : having a full rounded figure : pleasingly plump

Example sentence:The Flemish painters were masters of the oil medium, rendering zaftig beauties, robust burghers, hunting scenes, and allegorical subjects with subtle interplays of light and color.

Did you know?

"Real women have curves," as a 2002 movie title proclaimed. They are pleasingly plump, full-figured, shapely, womanly, curvy, curvaceous, voluptuous, statuesque. They are, in a word, zaftig. "Zaftig" has been juicing up our language since the 1930s (the same decade that gave us Yiddish-derived "futz," "hoo-ha," "nosh," and "schmaltz," not to mention "lox"). It comes from the Yiddish "zaftik," which means "juicy" or "succulent" and which in turn derives from "zaft," meaning "juice" or "sap."

*www.m-w.com

Rubenesque (roo-buh-NESK) adjective

Full-figured; rounded; voluptuous,

[After Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) knownfor depiction of plump female figures in his paintings.]

Rubens's paintings: http://ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rubens/

"But our society admires thinness -- the Rubenesque Marilyn Monroe likely would be considered too plump these days -- and so some of our children, in the quest to look attractive, may starve themselves." S. Jennifer Hunter; Where Were Schiavo's Loved Ones As Disorder Led to Downfall?; Chicago Sun-Times; Apr 6, 2005.

* wsmith@wordsmith.org

*have to edit this entry and backdate...so as not to intervene with my Star Wars entry...hehehe