embonpoint

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
21
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/

Definition of embonpoint

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

adj

  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."”

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Etymology

Borrowed from French embonpoint.

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