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
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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
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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
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Lo, cloudy lips the mountains kiss, And day is bosomed on the night, Although earth's lovers love amiss.
From Etain the Beloved and Other Poems by Cousins, James Henry
The distant keep of Windsor, "bosomed high in tufted trees," is the only visible object that appeals to the imagination, or speaks of anything outside of rural peace and contentment.
From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard
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