embonpoint
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prettygoodwordembonpoint (ahn-bawn-PWAN) - n., the condition of being plump, stoutness.
With a very strong connotation of "heavy but not unattractively so" -- so in the same range as voluptuous but applicable to men as well as women. Can also be used adjectivally, but this is not common. Taken in the 1650s from French, same meaning, a compression of en bon point, literally "in good condition."
---L.
With a very strong connotation of "heavy but not unattractively so" -- so in the same range as voluptuous but applicable to men as well as women. Can also be used adjectivally, but this is not common. Taken in the 1650s from French, same meaning, a compression of en bon point, literally "in good condition."
---L.
