embonpoint

Example Sentences

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A lot of time is spent in airports, where there is “The pop of a Krispy Kreme sign and the tan embonpoint / Of Scotch bottles after customs to caress.”

From New York Times

He’s carrying a bit of weight – you could almost say embonpoint.

From The Guardian

Long taunted for his embonpoint, polite French for tubbiness, the affable pol used to garner dessert-inspired nicknames.

From Newsweek

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

According to the Chinese physicians, this root possesses the faculty of renovating exhausted constitutions, giving fresh vigour, raising the drooping moral and physical faculties, and restoring to health and embonpoint the victim of debauchery.

From Project Gutenberg