embonpoint

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

Nevertheless, it cannot be denied, that upon the whole they are hereditarily entitled to embonpoint.

"It's all we do do," said the lady of the embonpoint, whose first name by now he had gleaned as Winifred.

Mrs. Hastings has been a remarkably fine woman; she is now five-and-thirty, and still good looking, though disposed to embonpoint.