breastedadj.
/ˈbrɛstᵻd/, U.S. /ˈbrɛstəd/ 1.
a. Of a person, animal, or thing: having a breast or chest, esp. of a specified kind. Often as the second element in compounds.broad-breasted, double-breasted, pigeon-breasted, red-breasted, etc.: see the first element.
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c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 7163 As a somer it is brested bifore in þe brede.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 4912 (MED) Eneas..Was wel brested and of body lite.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 13v The bygge brested shafte is fytte for hym.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii. sig. I8v/2 Chymæra, a Monster..breasted like a Lyon.
1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 8 Times are altered since you went open Breasted.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel i. 6 The huge, broad-breasted, old oak tree.
1865 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. Headed like a snake, loined like a weasel, and breasted like a swan.
1904 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 87/3 Boys' Vestee Suits, three-piece style, with single-breasted vest.
2007 New Yorker 10 Dec. 71/3 Many other birds feed in hemlocks or nest in them, including the Acadian flycatcher..and the red-breasted nuthatch.
b. With modifying word: (of a woman) having breasts of a specified kind.big-breasted, flat-breasted, small-breasted, etc.: see the first element. Recorded earliest in large-breasted adj. at large adj., adv., and n. Compounds 1b.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [adjective] > having
breasted1571
mammeated1656
mammillary1792
busted1838
mammate1857
mammilliferous1857
mammiferous1869
mammulose1889
1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xiii. f. 18v Shee had a small heade, and Pineapple like, a necke comely formed, large breasted, seemelye armes, aunswering to the body: but in hir other partes, as in the hippes, buttockes, thighes, and legges, nere agreeing to mans.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Sow,..a term of Reproach given many times to a fat, lazy, rank, big breasted Woman.
1895 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 19 May 17/7 All of the great poets have written of beautiful women as small-breasted.
1982 K. Pollitt Antarctic Traveller i. 24 The heavy-breasted, lacquered and mascaraed women.
2018 @hermosopjimin 4 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 30 Sept. 2019) I agree that small breasted women are represented more in high fashion and that big breasted women have more problems with sexualization and just in general.
2. In predicative use with with: ornamented or decorated on the breast or chest. Also figurative. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [adjective] > ornamented or decorated > on the breast
breasted1736
1736 London Evening-post 14 Oct. He..had two Waistcoats on, the uppermost of which was breasted with Blue.
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 25 80 Breasted with the cross, they roam on to the Holy Land.
1923 Courier (Dundee) 24 Dec. 2/6 Her little black costume was breasted with a huge butterfly in glorious colourings.
1974 Chicago Rev. 26 No. 1. 129 Nights when the sky is breasted with moon and stars.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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