In an effort to understand people who insist upon using BIG words, I signed up for Word of The Day from Dictionary.com I am particularly enamored with 'fat' and 'food' words. They are fun (for me, anyway), and working on creating a sentence or two is, indeed, a productive way to spend time … a Creative Act of Weight Loss, if every there was one!
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Here is today's word! Bon appetit!
embonpoint \ahn-bohn-PWAN\, noun:
Plumpness of person; stoutness
Embonpoint is from French, literally "in good condition" (en, "in" + bon, "Good" + point, "situation, condition).
With his embonpoint, Mr Soames appears to be wearing a quadruple-breasted suit.
-- Simon Hoggart, "Roll up, roll up, to explore the Soames Zone", The Guardian, February 1, 2000
His embonpoint expands by the day and his eyes are buried in the fat of his cheeks.
-- quoted in Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Revolution and Renunciation by Nicholas Boyle
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Try embonpoint on for size!!! See if anyone knows what you 're talkin' about.
Here's my sentence: His embonpoint expanded before our very eyes, as we shopped in the new food market in Grand Central Station.
(A special prize to those who can figure out whose embonpoint expanded!) write me!
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