embonpoint
noun
em·bon·point äⁿ-bōⁿ-ˈpwaⁿ 
: plumpness of person : stoutness
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Embonpoint is most often used to describe people of heavy, but not unattractive, girth. It derives from "en bon point," a phrase from Middle French that means "in good condition." The word was first used as a noun in English in the 17th century. It has subsequently appeared in works by Charlotte Brontë ("a form decidedly inclined to embonpoint" - Shirley), James Fenimore Cooper ("an embonpoint that was just sufficient to distinguish her from most of her companions" - Home as Found), and George Eliot ("as erect in her comely embonpoint as a statue of Ceres" - Adam Bede), among others.
Synonyms
- adiposity
- chubbiness
- corpulence
- corpulency
- fat
- fatness
- fattiness
- fleshiness
- grossness
- obesity
- plumpness
- portliness
- pudginess
- pursiness
- rotundity
- weight
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Example Sentences
clothes for women who may be inclined to embonpoint but who still want to look stylish
Recent Examples on the Web The pop of a Krispy Kreme sign and the tan embonpoint / Of Scotch bottles after customs to caress. 
Dwight Garner, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
Dwight Garner, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020 Word History
Etymology
French, from Middle French, from en bon point in good condition
First Known Use
1670, in the meaning defined above
embonpoint
noun
as in obesity
the condition of having an excess of body fat clothes for women who may be inclined to embonpoint but who still want to look stylish Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- obesity
- corpulence
- corpulency
- rotundity
- fat
- weight
- chubbiness
- plumpness
- fleshiness
- fatness
- pudginess
- adiposity
- stoutness
- fattiness
- grossness
- portliness
- huskiness
- bulkiness
- pursiness
- heaviness
- brawniness
- burliness
- endomorphy
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- slenderness
- slimness
- leanness
- thinness
- trimness
- svelteness
- gauntness
- skinniness
- fitness
- weediness
- reediness
- scrawniness