What does embonpoint mean?
Embonpoint means Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous..
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/ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/ · noun
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.
"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."
Use embonpoint when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Embonpoint means Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous..
Common synonyms include ample, beer-bellied, big, bulky.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.
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