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Embonpoint
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 4:56 pm
by Digit
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.
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.
Re: Embonpoint
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 6:57 pm
by Katya
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.)
Re: Embonpoint
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:43 pm
by bobtheenchantedone
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.