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Portliness   Listen
noun
Portliness  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness. "Such pride is praise; such portliness is honor."
2.
Bulkiness; corpulence.





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"Portliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bank, brightly polished and perspiring, stood a line of dusky soldiers, presenting arms. At the end of the gang-plank, his portliness exceeded only by his stateliness, was the great potentate His Excellency the Mahmoudieh of Assuan. With sweeping obeisances, he greeted each one in a manner only befitting those who held his provinces in such deep respect. ...
— The Tale of a Trooper • Clutha N. Mackenzie
... of the hall, composed of fathers, mothers, and sisters of the bridegrooms of the seven Vestals. None of the bridegrooms had brothers, and Harry had neither mother nor sister; but his father was there in rustic portliness, looking, as Harry had anticipated, as if he were all but ...
— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock
... tall and broad and well on the way to portliness. His limbs were massive and slow of movement and his head large, with a mane of slightly graying hair flung back from a wide, unfurrowed brow. Small and very black eyes pierced out from crinkled heavy lids and a ...
— Rose of Old Harpeth • Maria Thompson Daviess


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