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单词 mid-breast
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mid-breast
mid-breast n. (a) the middle of a person's breast (originally poetic); the corresponding part of a bird or mammal; also attributive; (b) Entomology = medipectus n. (obsolete rare).
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?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 178 When strait the royall Cretans dart, in his mid breast appear'd; It brake the curets.
1782 C. Rogers tr. Dante Inferno xxxiv. 132 The Emperor of this domain of woe from his mid-breast arose above the ice.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxv. 562 We will next say something upon those..that compose the medipectus or mid-breast.
1864 R. S. Hawker Quest of Sangraal 17 A Vast Archangel floods Sir Galahad's Shield: Mid-breast, and lifted high, an Orient Cruse..running o'er, with Numynous Light.
1939 J. D. Sinclair tr. Dante Divine Comedy: Inferno I. xxxiv. 421 The Emperor of the woeful kingdom stood forth at mid-breast from the ice.
2000 Whispering Wind (Electronic ed.) Feb. There was usually also a row of fringes threaded throughout the hide at mid-skirt and mid-breast levels, front and back.
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