ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bustlike

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Bustlike is an adjective meaning Resembling or characteristic of a bust.

Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of a bust.

Example Sentences

Her lips were not wont to be so cold and white when kissed in that glen-bower; not so moveless and bustlike her bosom.
A 1787 Gainsborough shows the painter looking forward, elegantly attired, with an oval shape around the bustlike pose that could well be the frame of a mirror.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bustly, breastlike, bulllike, buttresslike, chestlike, bumplike.

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