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Full-bottomed   Listen
adjective
Full-bottomed  adj.  
1.
Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.
2.
(Naut.) Of great capacity below the water line.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Full-bottomed" Quotes from Famous Books



... erect, with his hamstrings in tension, and his arms folded on his gun barrel; on the other, the lion, a gigantic specimen, humped up in the straw, with blinking orbs and brutish mien, resting his huge muzzle and tawny full-bottomed wig on his forepaws. ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet

... Crabbe's influence was powerful as against the old conventionality. He did not, like his predecessors, write upon the topics which interested 'persons of quality,' and never gives us the impression of having composed his rhymes in a full-bottomed wig or even in a Grub Street garret. He has gone out into country fields and village lanes, and paints directly from man and nature, with almost a cynical disregard of the accepted code of propriety. But the points on which he parts company with his ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen



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