bosomed

American  

[booz-uhmd, boo-zuhmd] / ˈbʊz əmd, ˈbu zəmd /

adjective

1. having a specified type of bosom (usually used in combination).

   a full-bosomed garment; the green-bosomed earth.

2. concealed or secreted in the bosom.

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Etymology

Origin of bosomed

First recorded in 1640–50; bosom + -ed ³

Example Sentences

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

The man of God turned away, pale to the temples with offense—a high- bosomed matron opposite emitted a shocked "Oh!"—the faces of the surrounding listeners assumed expressions either dismayed or deprecating.

From The Nest Builder by Hale, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson

Here is Littlebrain Castle, a Gothic, moss-grown structure, half bosomed in trees.

From Headlong Hall by Peacock, Thomas Love