full-bosomed

comparative more full-bosomed · superlative most full-bosomed

1. generally of a womanHaving an ample bosom, having large breasts.

   When he grew into a man, though, he sought out full-bosomed women like Inés, but unlike her, he wanted full-bosomed women who were also docile, compliant, and susceptible to flattery; in a word, he concentrated on women who would submit to him.

   2010, Robert Fedorchek, The Translators, page 152

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   A favorite epithet of the Greek poets, lyrical, epic, and dramatic, is deep-bosomed. […] Full-bosomed might imply a luxuriance every way. Deep-bosomed is spoken in one of those poetical feelings of contrast, which imply rather a dislike of the reverse quality

   1825, “Criticism on female beauty”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 10, page 150

   Synonyms: busty

2. figurativelyAbundant, generous, large, excessive.

   For there's a something in the air. Summer is at its most full-bosomed ripeness. Soon it will be a little overripe.

   1937, “A new design in shrimp”, in Ladies' Home Journal, volume 54, page 52

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   By the time Ama got to the scene, Egeonu had given four more full-bosomed wails. The lamentation did not leave anybody in doubt that something terrible had happened.

   2012, Christopher Amatobi, Many Moons Ago in Africa, page 91