Word: embonpoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Englishwoman there wrote: "Lord Nelson thinks of nothing but Lady Hamilton, who is totally occupied by the same object. She is bold, forward, coarse, assuming and vain. Her figure is colossal, but, excepting her feet, which are hideous, well-shaped. Her bones are large and she is exceedingly embonpoint." In England the mob shouted hoarse applause but society whispered. Nelson was heaped with formal honors and financial rewards, but he and Emma were received nowhere. Nelson's wife formally left him. Before old Sir William died, with his wife holding one hand, Nelson the other, Emma had borne...