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book-bosomed en · ADJ

Etymology

From book + bosom + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, literary) Describing an individual who carries a book at all times.
    • Old Morough..spoke of a lot of book-bosomed monks to sentinel us, and an exorcist to expel us. 1887, M.L. O'Byrne, Court of Rath Croghan, page 386:
    • The dwarf espied the mighty Book! Much he marvelled, a knight of pride, Like a book-bosom'd priest, should ride. 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, page viii:
    • Many a dreamy hour have I wandered in this delicious solitude, not ‘book-bosomed’; for, at such times, my rule is peu lire, pense beaucoup. 1839, Caroline Kirkland, A New Home--Who'll Follow?, page 59: