poitrine

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Women have certainly gained by the new order of things Our poor friend Vermeille se meurt de la poitrine--a victim to tea and late hours.

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  1. from Old French poictrine,a breastplate, the breast, also peitrine, petrine, French poitrine, the breast, = Spanish petrina, pretina, a girdle, = Portuguese petrina = Italian pettorina, petturina, a breastgirdle, from Latin as if *pectorina, from pectus (pector-), breast: see pectoral.
 

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