Alexandre Dumas wrote:C’était à cette époque une femme de cinquante-deux à cinquante-trois ans à peu près, qui conservait, grâce à son embonpoint plein de fraîcheur, les traits de sa première beauté.
Embonpoint
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Embonpoint
Re: #76529, it looks like as a noun, it's always the masculine embonpoint, but that doesn't stop a woman from having it, according to Wiktionary.
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Re: Embonpoint
Yeah, it's always a noun, never an adjective (and I've submitted a comment to that effect).
The tricky think about your quote, Digit, is that the word also has an archaic meaning of "in good health," and it seems more likely to me that it's used in that sense. (And again, I'm not saying that it couldn't be used to describe a woman in the present day, just that it seems to be more commonly used to describe men.)
The tricky think about your quote, Digit, is that the word also has an archaic meaning of "in good health," and it seems more likely to me that it's used in that sense. (And again, I'm not saying that it couldn't be used to describe a woman in the present day, just that it seems to be more commonly used to describe men.)
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Re: Embonpoint
One of the songs I'm working on has this line:
"I have the embonpoint to become the queen of song, and my figure would look pretty as a page!"
Going with other lines in the song that also reference the singer's figure, in this context at least it's supposed to be referring to a larger girl/woman.
"I have the embonpoint to become the queen of song, and my figure would look pretty as a page!"
Going with other lines in the song that also reference the singer's figure, in this context at least it's supposed to be referring to a larger girl/woman.
The Epistler was quite honestly knocked on her ethereal behind by the sheer logic of this.