Ekbergian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ekberg +‎ -ian

Adjective[edit]

Ekbergian (comparative more Ekbergian, superlative most Ekbergian)

  1. Reminiscent of Anita Ekberg (1931–2015), Swedish actress, model, and sex symbol.
    • 1966, Walter Kaufmann, American encounter, page 15:
      Along an expressway the bus is heading through an unspectacular, often drab suburbia which for long stretches lies obscured by billboards depicting smiling goddesses of commerce with Ekbergian bosoms.
    • 2008, George Hamilton, William Stadiem, Don't Mind If I Do, page 160:
      The drivers were the Baron Enrico “Ricky” di Portanova, the half-Italian heir to a great Texas oil fortune, which he would have to sue for before he came to own Houston and Acapulco, and his then girlfriend, a heroic Ekbergian Swede […]
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