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Callipygian

//ˌkæ.ləˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having beautifully shaped buttocks.

    "[…]we soon once more were in a state to renew our delicious combat; and a second course was run in the delightful callipygian recesses of Venus’s second temple of lubricity."

  2. 2
    Specifically, describing a statue (often of a goddess such as Aphrodite) in a pose that shows off the figure's shapely buttocks.
Adjective
  1. 1
    pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καλλίπυγος (kallípugos) + -ian, from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”).

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