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breasted, ppl. a.|ˈbrɛstɛd| [f. breast n.] 1. Having a breast; esp. in comb., as big-breasted, narrow-breasted, open-breasted, wide-breasted, flat-breasted.
c1314Guy Warw. (1841) 261 As a somer it is brested bifore in the brede. c1420in Rel. Ant. I. 232 A Woman..fayre brested. 1522–4Capon in Fiddes Wolsey (1726) coll. 103 Syngyng men byn..very well brested. 1544R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 126 The bygge brested shafte is fytte for hym. 1626Cockeram iii, Chymæra, a Monster..brested like a Lyon. 1711J. Distaff Char. Don Sacheverellio 9 Times are altered since you went open Breasted. 1741Monro Anat. (ed. 3) 311 [They] become..flat breasted. 2. Ornamented or decorated on the breast.
1829Blackw. Mag. XXV. 80 Breasted with the cross, they roam on to the Holy Land. |