embonpoint
Collocations
3ADJ.
heroic
VERB + EMBONPOINT
heaving, inclined, regulating
ADV.
rather, slightly
Definitions
noun
Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.
The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.
adj
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."
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4She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.
WiktionaryThe beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.
WiktionaryThe 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.
Wiktionary"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 comp
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