Etymology
Origin of bosomed
Example Sentences
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Of the Victorians' love of nature, Gay points with a knowing smile to Robert Browning's image of a "cloud/ All billowy bosomed" and his "primal naked forms of flowers."
From Time Magazine Archive
As he lifted his hand to knock he heard steps, so he withheld his hand until a big man in black broadcloth trousers and a stiff bosomed white shirt without collar opened the door.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Have I not described a pleasant site for a dwelling, when I speak of it as bosomed in hill and wood, and rising from the verge of a stream?
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
There she was, a cloud black bosomed and charged with thunder, and he, like some absurd little Benjamin Franklin, had sent up a kite into the heart of the menace.
From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous
She was a part of elemental Nature—a part of sea and sky and deep bosomed tropical night.
From The Cricket by Williams, J. Scott (John Scott)
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