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单词 breaster
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breastern.

Brit. /ˈbrɛstə/, U.S. /ˈbrɛstər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: breast n., breast v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: Partly (in sense 1) < breast n. + -er suffix1, and partly (in sense 2) < breast v. + -er suffix1.
1. As the second element in compounds: a coat, jacket, etc., having a breast of a specified kind or style. Chiefly in single-breaster, double-breaster; cf. single-breasted adj., double-breasted adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > other > article of
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1841 Punch 17 July 4/2 We see it returned..to the right-hand depository of the nondescript and imaginary velvet double-breaster.
1930 Sat. Rev. 12 Apr. 447/2 Were not the so-called Oxford trousers and tight double-breasters worn before 1850?
2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) 18 I've seen sharp 1950s sharkskin single-breasters, and tough 1930s twill sacks.
2. A person who or thing which breasts something (in various senses of breast v.). Also as the second element in compounds.See also heel breaster n.
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1851 G. A. Murray Hawick Auld Brig in Competing & Other Poems 29 The brawny breaster of Time's billow.
1896 13th Rep. State Mineralogist (Calif. State Mining Bureau) 237 A breaster takes out 2 tons of gravel per shift.
1922 Lubrication Apr. 44/1 Inking Machines, Breasters, Clicking Machines, Pull Overs, etc.
1995 Hollywood Reporter (Nexis) 22 Nov. Familiars such as Patti LaBelle..and Michael Jackson think nothing of going over the top, then breasting a superhuman tide of passion to get on top of that. This is what they did at the Shrine taping, buoyed by musical director George Duke, no piddling tide breaster himself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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