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countable and uncountable, plural embonpoints
Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous. quotations examples
She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.
1911, J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy
The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.
1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
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.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 1
comparative more embonpoint, superlative most embonpoint
Plump, chubby, buxom. quotations examples
"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."
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 294