breasted
adjective
having a breast.
breasted
1 American
[bres-tid]
/ ˈbrɛs tɪd /
Breasted
2
American
[bres-tid]
/ ˈbrɛs tɪd /
noun
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
Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2021
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
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
Out of six staff writers there was only one woman, Mary Breasted.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2017
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
Neither Browning nor Breasted and Robinson, nor Hutton Webster, nor my own effort are very much longer than twice the length of Dickens' novel of Bleak House.
From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.
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