fully-expanded

Updated: May 21, 2025

As if "lolling," which means putting the body in the attitude of the most perfect ease compatible with a fully-expanded chest, was not in itself essentially graceful, and to be seen in every reposing figure in Greek bas-reliefs and vases; graceful, and like all graceful actions, healthful at the same time.

Charles Kingsley - Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc