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embonpoint
[ French ahn-bawn-pwan ]
noun
- excessive plumpness; stoutness.
embonpoint
/ ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃ /
noun
- plumpness or stoutness
adjective
- plump; stout
Word History and Origins
Origin of embonpoint1
Word History and Origins
Origin of embonpoint1
Example Sentences
Long taunted for his embonpoint, polite French for tubbiness, the affable pol used to garner dessert-inspired nicknames.
He was a stout, healthy-looking person, inclining to embonpoint; bound to succeed, if only from sheer solidity of person.
Why do opera singers show such a marked tendency to embonpoint?
Even Falstaff would be inclined to embonpoint if he were alive, in these days of Gallic supremacy.
It took two down cushions to give Zebedee's embonpoint the proper "bowl full of jelly" contour.
She was fond of the good things in life, and was obliged to watch carefully a tendency to embonpoint.
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