Definition of Embonpoint

1. Noun. The bodily property of being well rounded.

Exact synonyms: Plumpness, Roundness
Generic synonyms: Corpulency, Fleshiness, Obesity
Specialized synonyms: Chubbiness, Pudginess, Rolypoliness, Tubbiness, Buxomness
Derivative terms: Plump

2. Adjective. Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure. "Pleasingly plump"
Exact synonyms: Chubby, Plump
Similar to: Fat
Derivative terms: Chubbiness, Plumpness

Definition of Embonpoint

1. n. Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

Definition of Embonpoint

1. Noun. Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous. ¹

2. Adjective. Plump, chubby, buxom. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embonpoint

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embonpoint

embolisms
embolite
embolization
embolizations
embololalia
embolomycotic
embolomycotic aneurysm
embolon
embolophasia
embolophrasia
embolotherapy
emboluses
embonic acid
embonpoint (current term)
embonpoints
emborder
embordered
embordering
emborders
embosk
embosked
embosking
embosks
embosom
embosomed
embosoming
embosoms
emboss

Literary usage of Embonpoint

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of Talleyrand by Stewarton, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1903)
"How is it with your embonpoint ? Is your Charles to have a brother or a sister, or was it only a false alarm ? Embrace our dear boy. I shall sup with you, ..."

2. Sexual Science: Including Manhod, Womanhood, and Their Mutual Interrelations by Orson Squire Fowler (1870)
"—embonpoint, OR A PLUMP vs. A LEAN PERSON. Size is one of the natural conditions of power. The life germ must grow many hundred thousand per cent. ..."

3. Continuation of the Diary Illustrative of the Times of George IV by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury (1839)
"D is handsome, though perhaps rather embonpoint, is one of the pleasantest men I ever saw. " The Bishop of C , brother to the Earl of Howth, and Miss says ..."

4. Classic and Historic Portraits by James Bruce (1854)
"In the third novel, the Miller's wife is " very beautiful and embonpoint." In the twenty-first, the abbess is described as " beautiful and young and ..."

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