Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of chest
- in compoundsusuallyHaving a chest (with a specified quality).
Jenny was the most flat-chested of her friends.
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Spare, like Henry the Fifth, almost to the manly defect of leanness, his proportions were slight to those which gave such portly majesty to the vast-chested Edward, but they evinced the promise of almost equal strength […]
1843, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last of the Barons, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, pages 126–7Beholding Ajax then, the aged king / Asked yet again: "Who is that other chief / Of the Achaians, tall, and large of limb,— / Taller and broader-chested than the rest?"
c. 1874, William Cullen Bryant, The Iliad of Homer, Translated into English Blank Verse, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Book III, p. 76Loud greetings followed, and another burst of laughter, heavy, deep-chested and glad.
1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, published 1928, Part VI, p. 185From behind him there emerged a broad-chested guard with a long black truncheon in his hand.
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Three, Chapter 1The schoolmaster himself was very thin, black and pigeon-chested under a woollen pullover.
1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, published 1973, Part Two, p. 85
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