breasted
1 Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of breasted
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1300; see origin at breast, -ed 3
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The postwar “Bold Look” promoted by Esquire magazine in the spring of 1948 features a man with a boldly printed tie; pinstripes and double breasted cuts likewise remained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
The opening look set the tone - an ivory, double breasted coat, buttoned snuggly across the chest before flaring out, the feathery fringe of a miniskirt poking out below.
From Reuters ● Jan. 24, 2023
On a recent visit, a red breasted hawk perched atop a post where one of its security lights had broken and fallen off.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2021
Yet he could have breasted all these things in some way, if the central tenet of his heart had not been ravaged.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Breasted himself didn't die until 1935, although his death did occur immediately after a trip to Egypt.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021
Breasted and Rockefeller were fired up by the legend of Armageddon in the Bible, which originally refers to the place as Megiddo, supposedly built by King Solomon in the mid-tenth century bc.
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
Egyptian history in the light of the latest discoveries may be best studied in the judicial pages of Breasted, the foremost of American Egyptologists.
From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various
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