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語源

Borrowed from French embonpoint.

発音

• enPR: äɴbôɴpwĕɴ, IPA: /ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃/

名詞

embonpoint (countable and uncountable, plural embonpoints)

1. Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
   • 1911, J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy:

     She was slightly inclined to embonpoint.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     The beautiful woman threw off her sabletrimmed wrap, displaying her queenly shoulders and heaving embonpoint.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 1:

     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.

形容詞

embonpoint (comparative more embonpoint, superlative most embonpoint)

1. Plump, chubby, buxom.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:overweight, Thesaurus:voluptuous

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 294:

     "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."