TENTERBELLY NOUN one who distends his belly; a glutton ...1628 obs. ETYMOLOGY from tenter (vb. to stretch cloth on a tenter) + belly (n.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1628 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Not with sweet wine, mutton and pottage, as many of those Tenterbellies doe, howsoeuer they put on Lenten faces, and whatsoeuer they pretend, but from all manner of meat..." From: The Anatomy of Melancholy, With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and seuerall cures of it. - Robert Burton
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