embonpoint

• Only one party attracted him: a riding master and a trio of brokers who were verging on embonpoint, and were desperate and looked it. —  The Lure of the Mask
• The bird in question might, however, be more properly called, as Bewick calls it, 'water pyot,' or water magpie, for only its back and wings are black,--its head brown, and breast snow white 20] Or in French, 'embonpoint 90. —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
• Full foreheads, round heads, golden hair, short figures of small build but with embonpoint, their nudity minutely represented and but thinly veiled; many such were produced in Flanders and in Italy. —  The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
• Van Dyck's manly shape was tending to embonpoint: he had evolved a double chin, the hair on his head was rather seldom, and he could no longer run upstairs three steps at a time. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
• Mrs. Alfred is young enough to ignore the ravages of a possible embonpoint, but there be other matrons who hang so uncertainly about that borderland of beauty that they somehow manage to convey the hint that only by an unwinking watchfulness do they succeed in foiling the onslaughts of his ogreship of avoirdupois. —  The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2

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