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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



... her bosom to us," he said. "Henceforth we have the same interests and the same solicitudes. It is the sea alone which ...
— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden
... comfortable home, acquired by himself, he sought consolation for his troubled spirit in the cultivation of his lands, in books and in the bosom of his family. Mrs. Adams, to her capacities as a house-keeper, steward and farm manager, added a brightness and activity of mind and a range of reading, such as fully qualified her to sympathize with her husband in his public as well as his private ...
— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis
... a hundred times, but these kisses she apparently distinguished from the good-by kiss. He came back, and taking her again in his embrace, kissed her lips, her throat, her bosom, and then once more their lips met, and in that kiss of parting which plucks the heart up by ...
— An Echo Of Antietam - 1898 • Edward Bellamy
... bring these warnings to a husband who had lived with a wife for months and years and knew her like his sister or his bosom-friend. Nor is there any ground in Othello's character for supposing that, if he had been such a man, he would have felt and acted as he does in the play. But he was newly married; in the circumstances he cannot have known much ...
— Shakespearean Tragedy - Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth • A. C. Bradley
... dark eyes, his clean-shaven face took on an expression of strained interest, and his lips closed until they were lost in a straight line which drew down at the corners of his mouth. He read on to the end, and then quietly folded up the paper, and stuffed it into the bosom of his shirt. Once he turned and looked away in the direction in which Nevil Steyne's hut lay tucked away on the river bank. Then he shouldered his hoe ...
— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum


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