Embonpoint

“Embonpoint” (ahm-bone-PWAN) – literally French for “in good condition” – is a person’s plumpness or stoutness.

Example (as quoted in Goethe: The Poet and the Age by Nicholas Boyle): “His embonpoint expands by the day and his eyes are buried in the fat of his cheeks.”

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