embonpoint n the bodily property of being well rounded s sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; Usage(s) My preparator and myself were literally stupefied to see that he had lost half of his embonpoint. Paul Verlaine, famed French poet, loved a girl "with a long, pale face, a lisp and a threat of embonpoint. She concealed her slenderness in an embonpoint of drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers. Synonym(s) plumpness roundness chubby plump