bosomed

bosomed

English

Etymology

bosom +‎ -ed

Adjective

bosomed (not comparable)

1. Having a bosom (of a specified kind).
   • 1748, Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Spring,” lines 1-4,

     Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours,

     Fair Venus’ train, appear,

     Disclose the long-expecting flowers,

     And wake the purple year!

   • 1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230,

     O all wide places, far from feverous towns!

     Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!

     Rock-bosomed shores! rough heaths! and sheep-cropt downs!

   • 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chapter 12, “The Well-Appointed House,”

     For luncheon or earlier, if [the butler] is on duty at the door, he wears black trousers, with gray stripes, a double-breasted, high-cut, black waistcoat, and black swallowtail coat without satin on the reverse, a white stiff-bosomed shirt with standing collar, and a black four-in-hand tie.

   • 1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 15,

     At the back of the cars, one in each, and very upright, sat two dark, bejewelled, deep-bosomed women who had no eyes for the flying landscape but smiled at each other with unhealthy concentration.

   • 2009 April 12, Carol Kino, “A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones”, in New York Times‎:

     The show focuses on three women, including the kittenish, outlandishly bosomed Keri, and Fran, a near-ringer for Mary Wilson of the Supremes .

Derived terms

• full-bosomed