bustlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a bust.

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Meanings

adjectivebustlike (comparative more bustlike, superlative most bustlike)

comparative more bustlike · superlative most bustlike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bust.

    Her lips were not wont to be so cold and white when kissed in that glen-bower; not so moveless and bustlike her bosom.

    1856, John Wilson, The Works of Professor Wilson
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    A 1787 Gainsborough shows the painter looking forward, elegantly attired, with an oval shape around the bustlike pose that could well be the frame of a mirror.

    2013, Hugh J. Silverman, Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, page 172

Origin

From bust + -like.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

stublike
Cite this entry
APA

bustlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bustlike

MLA

“bustlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bustlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bustlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bustlike.

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