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===Etymology===
===Etymology===
{{suffix|en|breast|ed}}
From {{suffix|en|breast|ed}}.


===Adjective===
===Adjective===
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#* {{quote-text|en|year=2000|author=Thomas A. Easton|title=Stones of Memory|page=11|passage=He tried to imagine them sleekened and '''breasted''', not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2000|author=Thomas A. Easton|title=Stones of Memory|page=11|passage=He tried to imagine them sleekened and '''breasted''', not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.}}
# {{lb|en|in combination}} Having a specified kind of [[breast]] or [[covering]].
# {{lb|en|in combination}} Having a specified kind of [[breast]] or [[covering]].
#* {{quote-book|en|1884|Charles Louis Flint|The American Farmer||480|The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the '''Black-breasted''' Red, with '''fawn-breasted''' partridge hens; the '''Brown-breasted''' Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the '''Red-breasted''' Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1884|author=Charles Louis Flint|title=The American Farmer|page=480|text=The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the '''Black-breasted''' Red, with '''fawn-breasted''' partridge hens; the '''Brown-breasted''' Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the '''Red-breasted''' Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.}}


====Derived terms====
====Derived terms====
{{der2|en|black-breasted leaf turtle|golden-breasted fulvetta|rufous-breasted sparrowhawk|white-breasted nuthatch|double-breasted|single-breasted|bar-breasted honeyeater|bare-breasted|big-breasted|blue-breasted fairywren|buff-breasted sandpiper|chestnut-breasted mannikin|chicken-breasted|cinnamon-breasted tit|green-breasted pitta|open-breasted|pigeon-breasted|red-breasted flycatcher|red-breasted goose|red-breasted merganser|rose-breasted grosbeak|scaly-breasted lorikeet|slaty-breasted tinamou|spot-breasted lapwing|stripe-breasted tit|tawny-breasted tinamou|white-breasted sea eagle|white-breasted waterhen|yellow-breasted bunting|yellow-breasted chat|red-breasted sapsucker| plain-breasted hawk|white-breasted hawk|yellow-breasted greenfinch| black-breasted leaf turtle|golden-breasted fulvetta}}
* {{l|en|double-breasted}}
* {{l|en|single-breasted}}


===Verb===
===Verb===
{{head|en|verb form}}
{{head|en|verb form}}


# {{en-past of|breast}}
# {{infl of|en|breast||ed-form}}


===Anagrams===
===Anagrams===

Latest revision as of 17:12, 9 September 2024

English

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Etymology

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From breast +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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breasted (not comparable)

  1. Having a breast, or breasts.
    • 2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11:
      He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.
  2. (in combination) Having a specified kind of breast or covering.
    • 1884, Charles Louis Flint, The American Farmer, page 480:
      The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the Black-breasted Red, with fawn-breasted partridge hens; the Brown-breasted Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the Red-breasted Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.

Derived terms

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Verb

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breasted

  1. simple past and past participle of breast

Anagrams

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