breastful

plural breastfuls · plural breastsful

1. The amount that a breast will carry or hold.

   And again he inhaled a prodigious breastful of the mountain air. "

   1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Human Chord

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   Enough for Him whom cherubim Worship night and day, A breastful of milk And a mangerful of hay; Enough for Him whom angels Fall down before, The ox and ass and camel Which adore.

   1900, Harrison S. Morris, In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)

   I had expected him to be a middle-aged man with a breastful of medals, with whom I would have to be formal; but Dunn was actually two months younger than myself.

   1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 136

   There were conjurers and singers and highland dancers wearing breastsful of medals, funny stories and recitations by blushing boys, and finally the choir again.

   1947, J. F. Hendry, Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood, Polygon Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 21