Meanings
- not comparableWithout a breast or breasts; flat-chested.
Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin; / And breastless creatures under ground / Leaned backward with a lipless grin.
1920, T. S. Eliot, “Whispers of Immortality”, in Collected Poems, 1909-1962, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1963, page 452 more examples
[…] she paused by the open staircase window which let in blinds flapping, dogs barking, let in, she thought, feeling herself suddenly shrivelled, aged, breastless, the grinding, blowing, flowering of the day, out of doors, out of the window, out of her body and brain which now failed […]
1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, Penguin, published 1992A girl who had been squatting at the back of the stage, smoking, stepped forward into the lamplight. She was very young, slim-shouldered, breastless […]
1934, George Orwell, chapter 8, in Burmese Days
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivewithout a breast
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