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Bosom   /bˈʊzəm/   Listen
Bosom

noun
1.
The chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept.
2.
A person's breast or chest.
3.
Cloth that covers the chest or breasts.
4.
A close affectionate and protective acceptance.  Synonym: embrace.  "In the bosom of the family"
5.
The locus of feelings and intuitions.  Synonym: heart.  "Her story would melt your bosom"
6.
Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.  Synonyms: boob, breast, knocker, tit, titty.
verb
(past & past part. bosomed; pres. part. bosoming)
1.
Hide in one's bosom.
2.
Squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness.  Synonyms: embrace, hug, squeeze.  "They embraced" , "He hugged her close to him"



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"Bosom" Quotes from Famous Books



... fainted upon his bosom. After that my dreams were haunted by gory battle-fields, in which P. Crandall figured in every imaginable scene of suffering and danger. My delicate nerves had received a severe shock, and yet I did ...
— Clemence - The Schoolmistress of Waveland • Retta Babcock

... darling! He doesn't come snarling, Or rearing, or hugging, this young Dancing Bear. With you (and with pleasure) he'll tread a gay measure, A captive of courtesy, under my care; His chain is all golden. Your heart 'twill embolden, And calm that dusk bosom which timidly shrinks. Sincere hospitality is, in reality, Safest of shackles;—just look at ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., February 7, 1891 • Various

... a chimney pipe, with the agility of a cat. Aimee, who must have consented to wait for him, stood on the tiles. We saw her plainly, black and enlarged against the pale sky, straining her children to her bosom. And it was then that the horrifying ...
— The Flood • Emile Zola

... about to report a curious fact, and one which shows that politics, which insinuate themselves and bring discord into the bosom of the most united families, had succeeded, strange to say, in penetrating as far as the galley-slaves' prison at Algiers. The slaves belonged to three nations: there were in 1809 in this prison, Portuguese, Neapolitans, and Sicilians; among these two latter classes were counted partisans ...
— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men • Francois Arago

... said the noble and learned lord, "on such an occasion, is entitled to entertain any personal feelings on his own behalf, it would be affectation—it would be insolent ingratitude—were I not to express the sentiments which glow within my bosom, at being made the instrument of making known those feelings which reign predominant in yours. Enough, however, of myself—now for my mighty subject.—But the choice you have made of your instrument—of your organ, as it were, on this ...
— Maxims And Opinions Of Field-Marshal His Grace The Duke Of Wellington, Selected From His Writings And Speeches During A Public Life Of More Than Half A Century • Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington


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