Embonpoint

"Embonpoint" is most often used to describe people of heavy, but not unattractive, girth.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day 2009

"Embonpoint" is most often used to describe people of heavy, but not necessarily unattractive, girth.

My Right Word 2008

Their daughters were Fanny's boarding school acquaintances in Scotland and must have been about her own age. whose daughters were Fanny's boarding school acquaintance, fine girls, with a most excellent mother, who tho 'even beyond Embonpoint began the ball and danced the whole evening, with her family and friends, as did several other Ladies, whose appearance did not promise much strength or agility.

Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 1920

It was a nice farm, and to our astonishment Madam Embonpoint proved to be an English Africander.

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

Madam Embonpoint could only arrange one spare bedroom, and that was reserved for the brigadier; but the rest dragged their sopping valises into the parlour and trusted to get five hours 'sleep before a daylight start ....

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

Embonpoint is the sign of health, and you and I have lived long enough to know that health is the foundation of energy, contentment, cheerfulness, and of whatever makes life either useful or pleasant.

Married or single? 1857

"/Embonpoint/is the fashion," he remarked, "and you are inches short of even that yet.

A Prince of Sinners 1906