voluminous

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From Late Latin voluminosus, from volumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Related to volume.

Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions. I remember that the Baroness was clad in a voluminous silk dress, pale grey in colour, and adorned with flounces and a crinoline and train.
Of great volume, or bulk; large. Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly mis-spend my time in writing so voluminous a work […]
Having written much, or produced many volumes. a voluminous writer