embonpoint

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.

   • She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.
   • The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.
   • The patient's physicians had always allowed him to indulge a gargantuan appetite, countering his intake and regulating his embonpoint by a heroic diet of purges and enemas.
2. 2

   Plump, chubby, buxom.

   • "Though it is six years since I have seen you," exclaimed Anne, "you are not the least altered; instead of that, you are handsomer than ever; your being rather more embonpoint suits you, and your complexion is brilliant to a degree."

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