embonpoint
- n the bodily property of being well rounded
- s sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure;
- 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.