Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

embonpoint

/ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.15 in modern English

Syllables: em-bon-point
IPA: /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.

Countable; Uncountable

adj

Plump, chubby, buxom.

Example Sentences

"She was slightly inclined to embonpoint."
"The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint."
"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."
""Though it is six years since I have seen you," exclaimed Anne, "you are not the least altered; instead of that, you are handsomer than ever; your being rather more embonpoint suits you, and your complexion is brilliant to a degree.""

Etymology

Borrowed from French embonpoint.

Usage

Inflected Forms

embonpoints (plural) more embonpoint (comparative) most embonpoint (superlative)

Synonyms

ample beer-bellied big bulky chubby chunky embonpoint fat flabby fleshy full-figured fulsome

Questions

How do you pronounce embonpoint?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/.
What does embonpoint mean?: Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
Where does embonpoint come from?: Borrowed from French embonpoint.

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