chubby-checked

Updated: May 25, 2025

There were two rooms, each of them square, communicating with one another by folding-doors, which had been removed, and replaced by curtains. Both were hung with pink cretonne of a Louis Quinze pattern, picturing chubby-checked cupids disporting themselves amongst garlands of flowers.

Émile Zola - A Love Episode

The child was making them drag him along, non passibus Cequis, as Virgil says, and stumbling at every moment, to the great indignation of his mother. It is true that he was looking at his cake more than at the pavement. But the mother should have rather taken charge of the cake. It was cruel to make a Tantalus of the chubby-checked boy.

Victor Hugo - Notre-Dame De Paris