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‖ embonpoint, a. and n.|ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃|
Also enbonpoint.
[F. embonpoint: f. phrase en bon point ‘in good condition’.]
A. n. Plumpness, well-nourished appearance of body: in complimentary or euphemistic sense.
1751Warburton in Pope Mor. Ess. iv. 47 Wks. 1751 III. 272 To take care that the..colours are proportioned to her complexion; the stuff to the embonpoint of her person. 1807Z. M. Pike Sources Mississ. iii. App. 35 They are all inclining a little to enbonpoint. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xi. 162 A form decidedly inclined to embonpoint. 1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 343 An increase in the body-weight and the embonpoint of those who take stimulants.
B. as predicative adj. Plump, well-nourished-looking. [In Fr. only as phrase en bon point.]
[1662Evelyn Sculptura i. i. (1755) 18 Plump & (as the French has it) en bon point.] c1806Sir R. Wilson in Life (1862) I. App. 372 Before marriage they are generally light in figure; after they are mothers they become more embonpoint. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxvii, Her form, though rather embonpoint, was nevertheless graceful. |