embonpoint

plural embonpoints

1. countableuncountablePlumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.

   She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.

   1911, J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy

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   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

comparative more embonpoint · superlative most embonpoint

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

   Synonyms: ample, beer-bellied, big, bulky, chubby, chunky, fat, flabby