Examples of “embonpoint” in a Sentence

3 example sentences showing how to use embonpoint, grouped by meaning.

noun A pleasingly plump or rounded figure.

She was slightly inclined to embonpoint. — J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy (1911)
The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint. — James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
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. — Colin Jones, The Great Nation (2002)