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 • Apr. 10, 2020

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2016

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

From Newsweek • Nov. 10, 2012

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 • Aug. 24, 2012

Her person is about the middle height, slightly embonpoint; her eyes dark, arch, and expressive; and a playful smile is almost constantly the companion of her lips.

From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling