How To Use Embonpoint In A Sentence
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The begatting has begun and poor old Emma is becoming "exceeding embonpoint" to say nothing of feeling as sick as a dog and must have put a brave face on it all as she suffered the vagaries of trans-European travel a la 1790's.
65 entries from December 2006
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And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries.
Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich
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Both women have the chalky flesh-tones, the lank pelt of body-hair, and the deep folds of embonpoint characteristic of Baldung's unenticing nudes.
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The maid for me is young brunette embonpoint-scant.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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One reason she gave was that other women plainly resented her glorious embonpoint.
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Though pleasant-looking to Burnell's guarded scrutiny, she was running to embonpoint and corsetry.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The much discussed embonpoint was merely his lungs forcing his stomach out.
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In the athletae, embonpoint, if carried to its utmost limit, is dangerous, for they cannot remain in the same state nor be stationary; and since, then, they can neither remain stationary nor improve, it only remains for them to get worse; for these reasons the embonpoint should be reduced without delay, that the body may again have a commencement of reparation.
Aphorisms
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citizeness" of Zurich, _embonpoint_ and matronly, married to one of the portly burghers of the city, and exemplary in all the arts of sheep-shearing, wool-spinning, and cheese-making; a mother, surrounded
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
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Though pleasant-looking to Burnell's guarded scrutiny, she was running to embonpoint and corsetry.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries.
Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich
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One theory is that the cold and wet in the opening week did not permit him to lose weight, as the heat he prefers might have: an extra kilo of embonpoint does not help on mountains.
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For example, when she wasn't working car shows, Kelley worked bars in Richmond Hill, her embonpoint en regalia in a low-cut dress with a beer logo plastered on it.
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It went down soft pulpy, slushy, oozy—all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large beatified Strawberry.
The Fruit Hunters
