English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

Borrowed from French embonpoint.

Pronunciation [ edit ]

enPR: äɴbôɴpwĕɴ , IPA (key) : /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/ Audio (UK)

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Noun [ edit ]

embonpoint (countable and uncountable, plural embonpoints)

Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous. 1911 , J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy : She was slightly inclined to embonpoint .

, J.M. Barrie, : 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses : The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint .

, James Joyce, : 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 1: 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.

Translations [ edit ]

plumpness Finnish: muodokkuus

French: embonpoint (fr) m Russian: полнота́ (ru) f ( polnotá ) , дородность (ru) f ( dorodnostʹ )

, Serbo-Croatian: punašnost (sh)

Adjective [ edit ]

embonpoint (comparative more embonpoint, superlative most embonpoint)

Translations [ edit ]

French [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

Univerbation of en bon point.

The rule in French is to write /n/ as /m/ in front of /m, p/ or /b/ - here the rule is applied to the first /n/ but not the second since the rule does not apply to the words derived from bon : bonbon, bonbonne and bonbonnière.

Pronunciation [ edit ]

Noun [ edit ]

embonpoint m (plural embonpoints)

plumpness, stoutness obésité surpoids 1844 , Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon : Quoique La Brière fût alors mince, il appartient à ce genre de tempéraments qui, formés tard, prennent à trente ans un embonpoint inattendu. (please add an English translation of this quote)

1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis ‎[1]: La patronne s’appelle Lucie Dunois. Son nom, en majuscules d’émail, est cimenté au vitrage de la devanture. Il manque trois lettres. Lucie a l’embonpoint d’un buveur de bière. (please add an English translation of this quote)

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