bosomed
English
Adjective
bosomed (not comparable)
- Having a bosom (of a specified kind).
- 1748, Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Spring,” lines 1-4,
- Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours,
- Fair Venus’ train, appear,
- Disclose the long-expecting flowers,
- And wake the purple year!
- 1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230,
- O all wide places, far from feverous towns!
- Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!
- Rock-bosomed shores! rough heaths! and sheep-cropt downs!
- 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chapter 12, “The Well-Appointed House,”
- For luncheon or earlier, if [the butler] is on duty at the door, he wears black trousers, with gray stripes, a double-breasted, high-cut, black waistcoat, and black swallowtail coat without satin on the reverse, a white stiff-bosomed shirt with standing collar, and a black four-in-hand tie.
- 1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 15,
- At the back of the cars, one in each, and very upright, sat two dark, bejewelled, deep-bosomed women who had no eyes for the flying landscape but smiled at each other with unhealthy concentration.
- 1748, Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Spring,” lines 1-4,
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