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breastful en · NOUN

Etymology

From breast + -ful.

Meanings

1. The amount that a breast will carry or hold.
   • I had expected him to be a middle-aged man with a breastful of medals, with whom I would have to be formal; but Dunn was actually two months younger than myself. 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 136:
   • Enough for Him whom cherubim Worship night and day, A breastful of milk And a mangerful of hay; Enough for Him whom angels Fall down before, The ox and ass and camel Which adore. 1900, Harrison S. Morris, In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV):
   • There were conjurers and singers and highland dancers wearing breastsful of medals, funny stories and recitations by blushing boys, and finally the choir again. 1947, J. F. Hendry, Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood, Polygon Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 21:
   • And again he inhaled a prodigious breastful of the mountain air. " 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Human Chord:

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