breasted
1 Americannoun
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
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
Yet he could have breasted all these things in some way, if the central tenet of his heart had not been ravaged.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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
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 Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple
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