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    breasted
    adjective
    having a breast.
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    Breasted
    noun
    James Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.
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breasted

1 American  
[bres-tid] / ˈbrɛs tɪd /

adjective

  1. having a breast.

  2. having a specified kind of breast (usually used in combination).

    narrow-breasted.


Breasted 2 American  
[bres-tid] / ˈbrɛs tɪd /

noun

  1. James Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.


Etymology

Origin of breasted

Middle English word dating back to 1275–1300; see origin at breast, -ed 3


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“Do you want single breasted or double breasted? Do you want a coat? Do you want it baggy? Do you want it slim? What color? What fabric?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

The opening look set the tone - an ivory, double breasted coat, buttoned snuggly across the chest before flaring out, the feathery fringe of a miniskirt poking out below.

From Reuters ● Jan. 24, 2023

On a recent visit, a red breasted hawk perched atop a post where one of its security lights had broken and fallen off.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Classy tailoring on suits, such as a double breasted number that opened the show with a delicate nip at the waists, contrasted with white sneakers and vests.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022

There were no fat little pigeon- breasted bags of gold.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Breasted, another famous Egyptologist of the day, was a member of Carter's team when King Tut's tomb was opened.

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

Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible, extra vol. 566-567; Breasted, History of Egypt, 173-175; Jastrow, Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians, 313-327.

From The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks

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