| Word | callypygean |
|---|---|
| Definition | adj. Having well-shaped buttocks. |
| Sentence | There would have been a sultan, his face expressing great agony (belied, as it were, by his molding caress), helping a callypygean slave child to climb a column of onyx. |
| Source | Lolita, I.30, p. 143 |
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