Meanings
- not comparableHaving a bosom (of a specified kind).
1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230, O all wide places, far from feverous towns! Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild! Rock-bosomed shores! rough heaths! and sheep-cropt downs!
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Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, Fair Venus’ train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year!
1748, Thomas Gray, Ode on the Spring, lines 1–41922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chapter 12, “The Well-Appointed House,” For luncheon or earlier, if [the butler] is on duty at the door, he wears black trousers, with gray stripes, a double-breasted, high-cut, black waistcoat, and black swallowtail coat without satin on the reverse, a white stiff-bosomed shirt with standing collar, and a black four-in-hand tie.
At the back of the cars, one in each, and very upright, sat two dark, bejewelled, deep-bosomed women who had no eyes for the flying landscape but smiled at each other with unhealthy concentration.
1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 15, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & SpottiswoodeThe show focuses on three women, including the kittenish, outlandishly bosomed Keri, and Fran, a near-ringer for Mary Wilson of the Supremes .
2009 April 12, Carol Kino, “A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds
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Origin
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