BREASTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breasted mean? 

• BREASTED (adjective)
  The adjective BREASTED has 1 sense:

1. having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds

  Familiarity information: BREASTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREASTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds

Context example:

red-breasted sandpiper

Similar:

bosomed (having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds)

Antonym:

breastless (without a breast)

 Context examples 

He was dressed in a single-breasted black coat buttoned up, a pair of leather pantaloons stretched tightly across his broad thighs, polished Hessian boots, and a huge white neckcloth.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Soon we could hear their footfalls as they ran and the cracking of the branches as they breasted across a bit of thicket.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Martin watched him and saw the stiff-rim, the square-cut, double-breasted coat and the swaggering shoulders, of the youthful hoodlum who had once been he.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He sat by John Thornton’s fire, a broad-breasted dog, white-fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves, urgent and prompting, tasting the savor of the meat he ate, thirsting for the water he drank, scenting the wind with him, listening with him and telling him the sounds made by the wild life in the forest, dictating his moods, directing his actions, lying down to sleep with him when he lay down, and dreaming with him and beyond him and becoming themselves the stuff of his dreams.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These animals include jaguars, Spix's macaws, harpy eagles, vinaceous-breasted amazons, crowned solitary eagles, hawksbill turtles, green turtles, tarantulas, Amazon false coral snakes, Brazilian green racer snakes, cream-colored woodpeckers, blue spiny starfish, sharks, seahorses, piaba fish, sawfish, bluefin tuna, brown howler monkeys.

(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)

He saw himself when he had been quite the hoodlum, wearing a "stiff-rim" Stetson hat and a square-cut, double-breasted coat, with a certain swagger to the shoulders and possessing the ideal of being as tough as the police permitted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)