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breastless

breastless adjective: without a breast or breasts; flat-chested.

Adjective

breastless (not comparable)

  1. Without a breast or breasts; flat-chested.
    • Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin; / And breastless creatures under ground / Leaned backward with a lipless grin.1920, T. S. Eliot, “Whispers of Immortality”, in Collected Poems, 1909-1962, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1963, page 45
    • […] she paused by the open staircase window which let in blinds flapping, dogs barking, let in, she thought, feeling herself suddenly shrivelled, aged, breastless, the grinding, blowing, flowering of the day, out of doors, out of the window, out of her body and brain which now failed […]1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, Penguin, published 1992

Origin of breastless

From breast + -less.

Words formed from breastless

Questions about breastless

What does breastless mean?
Breastless means without a breast or breasts; flat-chested.
What part of speech is breastless?
Breastless is an adjective.

Words near breastless in the dictionary

  1. breasting the tape
  2. breasting up
  3. breastings
  4. breastknot
  5. breastknots
  6. breastless
  7. breastlessness
  8. breastlift
  9. breastlifts
  10. breastlike
  11. breastling

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