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bustlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From bust + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a bust.
   • Her lips were not wont to be so cold and white when kissed in that glen-bower; not so moveless and bustlike her bosom. 1856, John Wilson, The Works of Professor Wilson:
   • A 1787 Gainsborough shows the painter looking forward, elegantly attired, with an oval shape around the bustlike pose that could well be the frame of a mirror. 2013, Hugh J. Silverman, Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, page 172:

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