embonpoint

noun, adj — 2 senses

embonpoint

noun

/ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/

Etymology Borrowed from French embonpoint.

1

Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.

  • She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.1911, J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy:
  • The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
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  • 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.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 1:

embonpoint

adj

Etymology Borrowed from French embonpoint.

1

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."1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 294:

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