bosomed
bosomed adjective: having a bosom (of a specified kind).
Adjective
bosomed (not comparable)
- Having a bosom (of a specified kind).
- Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours,
Fair Venus’ train, appear,
Disclose the long-expecting flowers,
And wake the purple year!1748, Thomas Gray, Ode on the Spring, lines 1–4 - O all wide places, far from feverous towns!
Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!
Rock-bosomed shores! rough heaths! and sheep-cropt downs!1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230
- Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours,
Examples of bosomed in a sentence
- 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.1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 15, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
- The show focuses on three women, including the kittenish, outlandishly bosomed Keri, and Fran, a near-ringer for Mary Wilson of the Supremes .2009 April 12, Carol Kino, “A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones”, in New York Times:
Origin of bosomed
From bosom + -ed.
Words formed from bosomed
Questions about bosomed
- What does bosomed mean?
- Bosomed means having a bosom (of a specified kind).
- How do you use bosomed in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is bosomed?
- Bosomed is an adjective.
Words near bosomed in the dictionary
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