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Buxomness

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Buxomness

Daisy Mae
Dogpatch beauty with enviable figure. [Comics: “Li’l Abner” in Horn, 450]
Little Annie Fanny
buxom version of Little Orphan Annie. [Comics: Playboy, Horn, 442]
Morpho
epithet of Aphrodite, meaning “shapely.” [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 25]
West, Mae
(1892–1980) voluptuous American leading lady; archetypal sex symbol. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 759–760]
Wife of Bath
well-endowed, lusty teller of tales. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales]
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