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  • noun Plural form of bosom.

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Examples

  • Not that she used the word bosoms, but the thought was there.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • Not that she used the word bosoms, but the thought was there.

    City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

  • Nothing helped more than this picture to rouse in English bosoms an intense horror of the trade, and a burning sympathy with Livingstone and his friends.

    The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

  • Within their bosoms is implanted of God the love of it.

    God's Ways Unsearchable 1865

  • Nothing helped more than this picture to rouse in English bosoms an intense horror of the trade, and a burning sympathy with Livingstone and his friends.

    The Personal Life of David Livingstone William Garden Blaikie 1859

  • She had a plaited-grass suing around her waist from which a small kil hung down in front, but her stern was completely exposed and her bosoms were the size and shape of ripe melons.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • At the good Brother's word bosoms heaved with remorse and deep-drawn sighs were heard.

    The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909 Anatole France 1884

  • It has happened in all ages that those who make the greatest sacrifices for the oppressed are often the least rewarded by human approbation, but they have the reward of peace in their own bosoms, which is far better.

    Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney, 1881

  • But there was a spirit in their bosoms, which is more essential to soldiership than to wear red coats, and march in stately ranks to the sound of regular music.

    True Stories of History and Biography Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • The whole race of men have this passion in some degree implanted in their bosoms, which is the strongest and noblest incitation to honest attempts: but the base use of the arts of peace, eloquence, poetry, and all the parts of learning, have been possessed by souls so unworthy those faculties, that the names and appellations of things have been confounded by the labours and writings of prostituted men, who have stamped a reputation upon such actions as are in themselves the objects of contempt and disgrace.

    The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

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  • WeirdNet ...

    September 12, 2009

  • Good grief--WeirdNet doesn't get to the two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman until the 11th definition.

    September 12, 2009