pigeon breast
noun
pigeon-breasted
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a word derived from
pigeon breast.
Example Sentences
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Dr. Gerstenberger has cured 15 bowlegged, pigeon-breasted babies in Cleveland with one large injection each.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was what is commonly known as "pigeon-breasted."
From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White
He was delicate and inclined to be pigeon-breasted.
From The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Charles Turley
The colour had changed, and the broad-chested, square-framed, pot-bellied, and portly old bully- boy of the woods had become a wretched pigeon-breasted, lean- flanked, shrunk-linibed, hungry-looking beggar.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Whenever the hearing is habitually dull, and the voice always thick, when cough is frequent, the nostrils narrow, the chest pigeon-breasted, and the child feeble and ill-thriven, removal of the tonsils is absolutely necessary.
From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West
