Bosom

/ˈbʊz(ə)m/ · noun

Meaning

(anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
2. The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
3. The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
4. The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
5. A breast, one of a woman's breasts
6. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
7. A depression round the eye of a millstone.
8. In a very close relationship.

Example Sentences

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion? In this case practicality dictated a bra, and Mary stood at the desk feeling herself flushing with disapproval.

my poor dear duke[…], in consequence of the excitement created in his august bosom by her frantic violence and grief, had a fit in which I very nigh lost him.

His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal,[…]to cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.

… Mr Toodle … was refreshing himself with tea in the bosom of his family.

there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

And he put his hand into his boſome: and when hee tooke it out, behold, his hand was leprous as ſnowe.

She was always in a fearful hurry, and the lower the bosom was cut the more it was to be gathered she was wanted elsewhere.

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• bosoms
• bosome
• bosoming
• bosomed

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