embonpoint

Long taunted for his embonpoint, polite French for tubbiness, the affable pol used to garner dessert-inspired nicknames.

He was a stout, healthy-looking person, inclining to embonpoint; bound to succeed, if only from sheer solidity of person.

Why do opera singers show such a marked tendency to embonpoint?

Even Falstaff would be inclined to embonpoint if he were alive, in these days of Gallic supremacy.