breasted
adjective
having a breast.
breasted
1 American
[bres-tid]
/ ˈbrɛs tɪd /
Breasted
2
American
[bres-tid]
/ ˈbrɛs tɪd /
noun
Etymology
Origin of breasted
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1300; see origin at breast, -ed 3
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“Do you want single breasted or double breasted? Do you want a coat? Do you want it baggy? Do you want it slim? What color? What fabric?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
The assistant bar manager, for instance, wears a sports jacket of burgundy velvet; the bar manager wears the double breasted version of the same garment, which is incrementally fancier.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
Classy tailoring on suits, such as a double breasted number that opened the show with a delicate nip at the waists, contrasted with white sneakers and vests.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
Saturday’s muted variation on sartorial elegance - fitted double breasted wool suits, Left Bank dark turtle necks, loose, pin-striped jackets and sumptuous car coats - was just this.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2015
He appears wearing a double- breasted suit, an unneeded raincoat draped over his arm.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Breasted, another famous Egyptologist of the day, was a member of Carter's team when King Tut's tomb was opened.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021
These were run by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, Illinois, under its inaugural director, Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, who coined the phrase ‘Fertile Crescent’.
From Nature ● Feb. 25, 2020
In 1905, the Egyptologist James Henry Breasted described Akhenaten as “the first individual in human history”, because the king stands out so brilliantly against the patterned past.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2019
In the late 1940s, the Exposition Park museum finally hired a director with an art background: James Henry Breasted Jr., the son of a well-known Egyptologist and an art history academic from UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2015
The interesting date of the harvest at El Bersha, quoted by Meyer in Breasted, Records, i. p.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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