chested

[ ches-tid ]

adjective

1. having a chest of a specified kind (often used in combination):

   broad-chested; barrel-chested.

Other Words From

• un·chested adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of chested¹

1400–50; late Middle English. See chest, -ed ³

Example Sentences

Steele, 50, is a barrel-chested woman with cropped, spiky hair the color of her last name.

From FiveThirtyEight

The group was rounded out by a barrel-chested 61-year-old named Rod Price, also from Florida.

From Outside Online

As I cruised along bare chested, my sweat actually cooled me off via evaporation, just as evolution intended.

From Outside Online

Advocates for allowing women to go topless at a popular Maryland beach destination urged an appeals court Wednesday to reject Ocean City’s “morality code” and declare its ban on bare-chested women unconstitutional.

From Washington Post

Short, barrel-chested, standing on the bridge with his hands on his hips, giving out with a running fire of orders in a bull voice.

From Washington Post

There was a photo of ex-Pro Bowler Kerry Rhodes carrying a man by a pool, bare chested and beaming.

From The Daily Beast

A group of tall and broad-chested young men in camouflage guarded rows of tents in the military part of the camp.

From The Daily Beast

One man walked bare-chested in the cold, his body painted with demands for public safety and slogans against police repression.

From The Daily Beast

They climb atop bare-chested men in a boxing ring—and sometimes they fall down and go boom.

From The Daily Beast

Now for Lagarde, it is Next Stop: D.C. And if she has her way, the end of the hairy-chested stuff.

From The Daily Beast

"Slap your saddles on them fresh hosses," he grated harshly from the back of a deep-chested, lean-flanked gray.

From Project Gutenberg

The soft murmur of his petition was answered only by the deep-chested, placid snore of the sleeping priest.

From Project Gutenberg

The stays insisted a little cruelly on the lines of her figure, and the tight bodice betrayed her narrow-chested.

From Project Gutenberg

Lieutenant Ralph Thurstane was a tall, full-chested, finely-limbed gladiator of perhaps four and twenty.

From Project Gutenberg

A girl comes up—thin, narrow-chested, but with an eagerness in her eyes that lifts her above any physical defects.

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