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embonpoint: synonyms: bathykolpian ???

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Definition:

{n} Plumpness, stoutness, especially when voluptuous.
{adj} Plump, chubby, buxom.

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Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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adj. stout, plump, full in figure, mostly of women: well-fed.
n. stoutness, plumpness, well-fed condition.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)

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She is as erect in her comely embonpoint as a statue of Ceres;

George Eliot. Adam Bede (1859)

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You must picture Mr. Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity. His figure inclined to embonpoint; his short limbs accentuated this inclination.

H.G. Wells. The Invisible Man.

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

James Joyce. Ulysses