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
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
Amarita meant to have supper early, so that she could give her mind untrammeled to getting her husband into his bosomed shirt and starting him on his quest.
From Country Neighbors by Brown, Alice
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