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| excessive plumpness; stoutness. |
[Origin: 1655–65; < F, lit., in good condition
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n. The condition of being plump; stoutness. [French, from en bon point, in good condition : en, in (from Latin in; see in-2) + bon, good (from Old French; see boon2) + point, situation, condition; see point.] |
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embonpoint
"plumpness," from Fr., from O.Fr. en bon point, lit. "in good condition."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| embonpoint | |
adjective | |
| 1. | sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump"; [syn: chubby] |
noun | |
| 1. | the bodily property of being well rounded [syn: plumpness] |
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Embonpoint
Em`bon`point"\, n. [F., fr. en bon point in good condition. See Bon, and Point.] Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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