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Definition of Embonpoint
1. Adjective. Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure. "Pleasingly plump"
2. Noun. The bodily property of being well rounded.
Generic synonyms: Corpulency, Fleshiness, Obesity
Specialized synonyms: Chubbiness, Pudginess, Rolypoliness, Tubbiness, Buxomness
Derivative terms: Plump
Definition of Embonpoint
1. n. Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
Definition of Embonpoint
1. Noun. Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous. ¹
2. Adjective. Plump, chubby, buxom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embonpoint
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Embonpoint
Literary usage of Embonpoint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Talleyrand by Stewarton, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1903)
"How is it with your embonpoint ? Is your Charles to have a brother or a sister,
or was it only a false alarm ? Embrace our dear boy. I shall sup with you, ..."
2. Sexual Science: Including Manhod, Womanhood, and Their Mutual Interrelations by Orson Squire Fowler (1870)
"—embonpoint, OR A PLUMP vs. A LEAN PERSON. Size is one of the natural conditions
of power. The life germ must grow many hundred thousand per cent. ..."
3. Continuation of the Diary Illustrative of the Times of George IV by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury (1839)
"D is handsome, though perhaps rather embonpoint, is one of the pleasantest men
I ever saw. " The Bishop of C , brother to the Earl of Howth, and Miss says ..."
4. Classic and Historic Portraits by James Bruce (1854)
"In the third novel, the Miller's wife is " very beautiful and embonpoint."
In the twenty-first, the abbess is described as " beautiful and young and ..."
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