embonpoint
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
embonpoint
- Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
- 1911, J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy:
- She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 1:
- 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.
- 1911, J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy:
- French: embonpoint
- Russian: полнота́
embonpoint
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