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Adjective
adipeux (feminine adipeuse, masculine plural adipeux, feminine plural adipeuses)
- (anatomy) adipose
1992, Amélie Nothomb, translated by Alison Anderson, Hygiène de l'assassin; republished as Hygiene and the Assassin, 2010:À dire vrai, que ce sédentaire adipeux ait survécu jusqu’à l’âge de quatre-vingt-trois ans rendait perplexe la médecine moderne.- Modern medicine was sincerely puzzled by the fact that this adipose, sedentary man had survived to the age of eighty-three.
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