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embonpoint

Noun CEFR B2
ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃

Definitions

Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Françaisembonpoint
DeutschEmbonpoint
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Examples

“She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.”
“The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap⟳, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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