chested

[ ches-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having a chest of a specified kind (often used in combination):
broad-chested; barrel-chested.

Origin of chested¹

1400–50; late Middle English. See chest, -ed ³

There was a photo of ex-Pro Bowler Kerry Rhodes carrying a man by a pool, bare chested and beaming.

A group of tall and broad-chested young men in camouflage guarded rows of tents in the military part of the camp.

One man walked bare-chested in the cold, his body painted with demands for public safety and slogans against police repression.

They climb atop bare-chested men in a boxing ring—and sometimes they fall down and go boom.

Now for Lagarde, it is Next Stop: D.C. And if she has her way, the end of the hairy-chested stuff.

"Slap your saddles on them fresh hosses," he grated harshly from the back of a deep-chested, lean-flanked gray.

The soft murmur of his petition was answered only by the deep-chested, placid snore of the sleeping priest.

The stays insisted a little cruelly on the lines of her figure, and the tight bodice betrayed her narrow-chested.

Lieutenant Ralph Thurstane was a tall, full-chested, finely-limbed gladiator of perhaps four and twenty.

A girl comes up—thin, narrow-chested, but with an eagerness in her eyes that lifts her above any physical defects.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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