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Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | English term or phrase: needed no pillow under her buttocks | "They got into a taxi and drove out to Rimmily Hissa along the Bosphorus, and around, and back in the cool night and went to bed and she felt as over-ripe as she looked but smooth, rose-petal, syrupy, smooth-bellied, big-breasted and needed no pillow under her buttocks, and he left her before she was awake looking blousy enough in the first daylight…" The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway, 1938.
Is it to mean she had big buttocks, or they needed no pillow to ease sexual intercourse? |
| | | English translation:Yes! | Explanation:
I would say that both your interpretations are correct: she had big buttocks, and so didn't need a pillow to raise her hips for sexual activity (some people find this improves penetration) |
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 Tony M
France
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