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Definition of Callipygian
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks. "The quest for the callipygian ideal"
Definition of Callipygian
1. Adjective. Having beautifully shaped buttocks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Callipygian
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Callipygian
Literary usage of Callipygian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"The callipygian devices of our fair ones have not escaped severe animadversion ;
and the ladies seem but lately to have discovered the just medium between ..."
2. Essays and Marginalia by Hartley Coleridge (1851)
"The callipygian devices of our fair ones have not escaped severe animadversion;
and the ladies seem but lately to have discovered the just medium between ..."
3. Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold: Containing by John Cam Hobhouse Broughton, Torquato Tasso, Cola di Rienzo (1818)
"The Toro, the Hercules, the Flora, jthe callipygian Venus, were all found in the
baths of Caracalla, of which most probably they had been the ornaments. ..."
4. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout the by William W. Sanger (1876)
"The ceremony was often mentioned as the callipygian games; and a sketch of a
scene which took place at one of these reunions, contained in a letter from a ..."
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