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Type Words
Synonyms plumpness, roundness
Type of corpulency, fleshiness, obesity
Has types buxomness, pudginess, rolypoliness, tubbiness, chubbiness
Type Words
Synonyms chubby, plump

Examples of embonpoint

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There is a picture of Helvin wearing one of the dresses with a very impressive embonpoint.
From the independent.co.uk
His ideological baggage is almost as heavy as his personal embonpoint.
From the economist.com
Self-improvement bursting forth from her embonpoint, she spoke of fertilisers and breast practice.
From the dailymail.co.uk
At 46, she is ravishing in a grey dress that flatters both her slender figure and operatic embonpoint.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Tristan was played by the Canadian Ben Heppner, and he has a belly quite as superb as the diva's own embonpoint.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hopkins doesn't look much like Hitchcock and doesn't try simply to impersonate the film-maker with his formidable embonpoint.
From the independent.co.uk
Even in France, there has been a notable move by embonpoint watchers from the sauce-rich grande cuisine to simpler, lower-calorie meals.
From the time.com
Alas, that fabled embonpoint was not enough to endear her to Laurence Olivier, who found working with her impossible on 1957 romance The Prince and the Showgirl.
From the movies.uk.msn.com
More examples
  • Chubby: sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";
  • Plumpness: the bodily property of being well rounded
  • Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous; Plump, chubby, buxom
  • A plump, hourglass figure.
  • Plumpness of person; stout