rubicund

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He was described in his Daily Telegraph obituary as being one of the most liberal-minded MPs of his generation with a demeanour variously described as "plump, balding and rubicund".

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2017

Some 350 cross-country skiers with rubicund faces from three days of playing outside were packed in the nave that caterers had transformed into a magnificent dining hall.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2013

Even the rubicund features and close-cropped white hair suggest a mix of military autocrat and merry patriarch.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2010

Beneath the concave bows of this fuselage-shaped ship stood her owner and chief designer, round, rubicund Hollander Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, an old hand at aircrafting, a brand-new hand at shipbuilding.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of them was a rubicund giant with a strong Spanish accent, Father Jose Dulce Maria, whose name was familiar to Esteban Trueba.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende