bosomed en · ADJ
Etymology
From bosom + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a bosom (of a specified kind).
1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chapter 12, “The Well-Appointed House,” For luncheon or earlier, if [the butler] is on duty at the door, he wears black trousers, with gray stripes, a double-breasted, high-cut, black waistcoat, and black swallowtail coat without satin on the reverse, a white stiff-bosomed shirt with standing collar, and a black four-in-hand tie.
The show focuses on three women, including the kittenish, outlandishly bosomed Keri, and Fran, a near-ringer for Mary Wilson of the Supremes .
2009 April 12, Carol Kino, “A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones”, in New York Times:At the back of the cars, one in each, and very upright, sat two dark, bejewelled, deep-bosomed women who had no eyes for the flying landscape but smiled at each other with unhealthy concentration.
1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 15, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, Fair Venus’ train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year!
1748, Thomas Gray, Ode on the Spring, lines 1–4:1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230, O all wide places, far from feverous towns! Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild! Rock-bosomed shores! rough heaths! and sheep-cropt downs!