Big-boned
having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh.
Historical Examples
Dickens As an Educator James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Incredible Adventures Algernon Blackwood
The Roll-Call Arnold Bennett
The Vast Abyss George Manville Fenn
The Black Robe Wilkie Collins
The Garden Of Allah Robert Hichens
The Young Trailers Joseph A. Altsheler
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
Comrade Yetta Albert Edwards
Cornelius O’Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles Lever
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