Brewer's: Rotundity of the Belt

(Washington Irving). Obesity; a large projecting paunch; what Shakespeare calls a “fair round belly with good capon lined.” (As You Like It, ii. 7.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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