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





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"Embonpoint" Quotes from Famous Books



... behaved as if he appeared to consider it a mark of studied disrespect to be compelled to contrast his gaunt leanness with the young man's embonpoint, and was propitiated only by the reflection that he contributed in no way to his nephew's physical disproportion, since the latter was able to be at charges for his own welfare from resources derived ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder


Words linked to "Embonpoint" :   chubby, obesity, rolypoliness, pudginess, corpulency, chubbiness, plump, plumpness, roundness


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