Breasted
['brestid]
Definition
(adj.) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds; 'small-breasted'; 'red-breasted sandpiper' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Breast
(a.) Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat.
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Examples
- Here Mr. Casaubon paused, removed one hand from his back and thrust it between the buttons of his single-breasted coat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Four pigeon-breasted retainers in plain clothes stand in line in the hall. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He wore a pair of plaid trousers, and a large, rough, double-breasted waistcoat; out of doors, he carried a thick stick with a big top. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I breasted the surges, and flung them from me, as I would the opposing front and sharpened claws of a lion about to enfang my bosom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They were off at six in the morning, dressed up in old single-breasted coats, which once had been red, and came back to dinner at six. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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