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Embonpoint   Listen
noun
Embonpoint  n.  Plumpness of person; said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Embonpoint" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the armor worn by Herr Lawrence Barrett's Roman army in Herr Shakespeare's play of "Der Julius Caesar." Readers of Norse mythology may suppose that these weird sisters were dim, vague, shadowy creatures; but they are mistaken. Brunhilde has the embonpoint of a dowager, and her arms are as robust and red as ...
— Second Book of Tales • Eugene Field

... of the mistress of this mansion of rather obsolete luxurious comfort was strikingly singular. She was a woman about sixty years old, tall and large and fat, of what Balzac describes as "un embonpoint flottant," and was habitually dressed in a white linen cambric gown, long and tending to train, but as plain and tight as a bag over her portly middle person and prominent bust; it was finished at the throat with a school-boy's ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble



Words linked to "Embonpoint" :   plump, plumpness, tubbiness, pudginess, roundness, corpulency, fleshiness, rolypoliness, chubby



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