embonpoint

If I am kind to her, perhaps she will tell me what embonpoint is.

But for a tendency to embonpoint, he would have been good looking.

"Speaking of which, my dear, do you know what embonpoint is?"

The Russians had a great taste for her, owing to her embonpoint.

His figure inclined to embonpoint; his short limbs accentuated this inclination.

Like all men of sedentary habits, and statesmen, he had acquired a certainly reasonable embonpoint.

Nevertheless, it cannot be denied, that upon the whole they are hereditarily entitled to embonpoint.

She was one of those women who, inclined to embonpoint, have round smooth wrinkleless faces until they die.

Her figure was good, erect, well-proportioned, inclined to embonpoint, and she is reputed to have been very handsome."

We British are apparently setting international standards for obesity, plumpness, chubbiness and all-round embonpoint.

This perceived need to annihilate crow's feet and maintain a perky embonpoint at all times, has created a booming plastic surgery industry.

"But she knew how to maintain, despite her embonpoint, a very great charm, which was enhanced by her delightful foreign accent.

Mrs Conrad wa a beautiful woman of thirty-five, with golden hair and a slight tendency to embonpoint.

"Embonpoint" is French for 'plumpness'; state of being well-nourished'.

But the prodigious quantities of food she devoured, washed away with wine and strong liquors was not the main cause for her distressing embonpoint.

(It used to show, too, in an embonpoint that rivaled Colin Montgomerie's.)

'1,' declares Molly, fluffing out her feathery embonpoint, 'am the chicken.

- absolutely as round as a ball: - you will soon be as embonpoint (excuse my French) as your poor dear father, the major.

He's less a victim of fashion than of the new middle-class esthetic of moderation, which frowns upon any sign of embonpoint.

A robust man, George Lomax, inclined to embonpoint, with a red face and protuberant eyes, and an immense sense of his own importance.

Gesturing grandly - and displaying a considerable embonpoint - she is ordering the assault on the Turkish fortress at Navplion.

So there is repetition; he often reminds the reader that Beauty, Lanny's mother, must diet to ward off "embonpoint" (French for plumpness).

She was slightly inclined to EMBONPOINT.

Small twinkling eyes, a touch of baldness, a tendency to embonpoint and a general air of well-scrubbed and disinfected medical practitio/er.

With schools turning out people who don't know what embonpoint is, how can reader imaginations run wild when the story says the embonpoint is heaving?