embonpoint

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Pronunciation

• enPR: äɴbôɴpwĕɴ, IPA: /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/

Noun

embonpoint

1. 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.

Translations

• French: embonpoint
• Russian: полнота́

Adjective

embonpoint

1. Plump, chubby, buxom.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:overweight, Thesaurus:voluptuous

Translations

• Russian: по́лный
• Spanish: rechoncho, rollizo

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