breasted
adjective
having a breast.
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breasted
1 American
[bres-tid]
/ ˈbrɛs tɪd /
Breasted
2
American
[bres-tid]
/ ˈbrɛs tɪd /
noun
Etymology
Origin of breasted
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1300; see origin at breast, -ed 3
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The postwar “Bold Look” promoted by Esquire magazine in the spring of 1948 features a man with a boldly printed tie; pinstripes and double breasted cuts likewise remained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2021
A double breasted coat-jacket in gray had blown-up pinstripes with the dominant silhouette of a wide, flat front.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2018
Double- breasted or three-button coats and a plethora of vests made for a sharp and smart collection.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2014
He appears wearing a double- breasted suit, an unneeded raincoat draped over his arm.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Breasted himself didn't die until 1935, although his death did occur immediately after a trip to Egypt.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021
These were run by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, Illinois, under its inaugural director, Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, who coined the phrase ‘Fertile Crescent’.
From Nature ● Feb. 25, 2020
In 1905, the Egyptologist James Henry Breasted described Akhenaten as “the first individual in human history”, because the king stands out so brilliantly against the patterned past.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2019
In the late 1940s, the Exposition Park museum finally hired a director with an art background: James Henry Breasted Jr., the son of a well-known Egyptologist and an art history academic from UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2015
Such men as Breasted of Chicago, and Maspero, would probably take from three hundred to five hundred years from this date.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
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