Embonpoint
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Embonpoint is a noun meaning Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
Meaning
Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
More Meanings
- Plump, chubby, buxom.
Example Sentences
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."
Word Forms
- embonpoints
Synonyms for embonpoint
Depending on context, synonyms include ample, beer-bellied, big, bulky, chubby, chunky.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include plump, chubby, fat, plumpness, zaftig, buxom.
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