Meaning of embonpoint | Babel Free
/ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/Definitions
Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
countable, uncountable
Equivalents
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.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.