6 DECEMBER 2008, Page 28
Not the embonpoint
Sir: Dear Mary uses the word embonpoint to mean ‘bosom’. It doesn’t; the OED and Harrap’s French-English Dictionary agree that it means ‘plump’ , ‘stout’ or ‘well-covered’. Tom Jago
London SW6
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Sir: Dear Mary uses the word embonpoint to mean ‘bosom’. It doesn’t; the OED and Harrap’s French-English Dictionary agree that it means ‘plump’ , ‘stout’ or ‘well-covered’. Tom Jago
London SW6
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