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
For Cleopatra had her galley again now, and Withers, no longer the-wan, stood upright in a pigeon-breasted jacket and military trousers, behind her wheel-less chair at dinner-time and butted no more.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
"I reckon I wouldn't git pigeon-breasted with pride over it—nossir!"
From How Janice Day Won by Helen Beecher Long
The Irishman, perhaps, was thinking of the little city clerks he knew at home, pigeon-breasted, pale-faced, under-sized.
From The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
There is the major, as stubby-toed and pigeon-breasted as ever, broken from many of his Bohemian ways, but still full of anecdote and of kindliness.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
