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embonpoint
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em·bon·point  -pw)
n.
The condition of being plump; stoutness.

[French, from en bon point, in good condition : en, in (from Latin in; see in-2) + bon, good (from Old French; see boon2) + point, situation, condition; see point.]

embonpoint French [ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃]
n
plumpness or stoutness
adj
plump; stout
[from phrase en bon point in good condition]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.embonpoint - the bodily property of being well rounded
corpulency, fleshiness, obesity - more than average fatness
chubbiness, pudginess, rolypoliness, tubbiness - the property of having a plump and round body
buxomness - the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed
Adj.1.embonpoint - sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";
fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
Translations
embonpoint
n (hum euph)Embonpoint m or nt (dated), → Leibesfülle f


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ARJuly 1996; or the stripped down industrial tobacco shed aesthetic embodied in the architecture of the St James Hotel, Bordeaux, rather at odds with the plentiful embonpoints of its gourmandizing clientele, AR August 1990).
 
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