embonpoint

Definition

Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.

Etymology

Borrowed from French embonpoint.

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."