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embonpoint en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • äɴbôɴpwĕɴ
  • /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/

Etymology

Borrowed from French embonpoint.

Meanings

  1. Plump, chubby, buxom.
    • "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." 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 294:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most embonpoint Degree=Sup lexicographic
more embonpoint Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

gorbellied · well-endowed · built · chunky · portly · embonpoint · well-covered · pudgy · chubby · Rubenesque · zaftig · meaty · paunchy · heavy · buxom · well-rounded · well-padded · flabby · toothsome · curvaceous · podgy · sensual · thick · fulsome · overnourished · embonpoint · luscious · thick · sonsy · pleasantly plump · well-proportioned · rotund · heavyset · potbellied · bulky · love-handled · wide · fleshy · roly-poly · voluptuous · red-hot · plump · curvy · Rubenesque · ample · chubby · thicc · curvesome · plus-size · tubby · big · sonsy · beer-bellied · juicy · well-upholstered · full-figured · pneumatic · full-figured · swagbellied · fat · gorrel-bellied

Translations (8)

ja ぽっちゃり (plump, chubby, buxom) · es rollizo (plump, chubby, buxom) · sh pun (plump, chubby, buxom) · fi muodokas (plump, chubby, buxom) · ru доро́дный (plump, chubby, buxom) · ru по́лный (plump, chubby, buxom) · sh punašan (plump, chubby, buxom) · es rechoncho (plump, chubby, buxom)

embonpoint en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • äɴbôɴpwĕɴ
  • /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/

Etymology

Borrowed from French embonpoint.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
    • The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
    • 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. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 1:
    • She was slightly inclined to embonpoint. 1911, J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
embonpoints Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (6)

sh punašnost (plumpness) · ru доро́дность (plumpness) · de Embonpoint (plumpness) · fr embonpoint (plumpness) · ru полнота́ (plumpness) · fi muodokkuus (plumpness)