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
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
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
It was bosomed in the sandhills south of Market Street,—I know not between what streets, for they had all been blurred or quite obliterated by drifts of sifting sand.
From In the Footprints of the Padres by Stoddard, Charles Warren
In the city and village of the future, life will be so bosomed in beauty that there will be less need of artificial beauty-seeking and gaslight pleasures.
From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant
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