Word: bosomed
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...shape, developed in the buggy bistros of Paris, brings back the high, tight neck, the billowing bosom, the pinched waist, the flaring hip, and the slinging knee, thus incorporating the best features of fashions of the gay nineties and roaring twenties...
...only, he said, "a little waddling Freshman" (of Peterhouse, Cambridge) who was interested in the arts but had no unusual talent for them. He was a bosom friend of the Prime Minister's son, Horace Walpole, and might have climbed in 18th century London's brightest society. But Thomas Gray, author of one of the most celebrated poems in the English language, had no ambition to shine...
...what outraged Gina's counsel most was that Writer de Boccard, in referring to Gina's bosom, repeatedly used the word zinna, which is "vulgar language of the tavern, its precise meaning referring to the udder of a quadruped." This was "an attack on the reputation and honor of the actress, the woman and wife . . . because it violated all Italian tradition that calls for special respect to a woman, especially to a married woman." Furthermore, read the charge, this was "generic and specific defamation...
Homeward bound to Los Angeles, the S.S. Bright Star was leaving the northern reach of the Philippines when the watch saw dense white clouds of smoke bursting out of the bosom of the Pacific. The Bright Star's skipper reported to Manila that an underwater volcano seemed to be erupting in the vicinity of Didicas Rocks, uninhabited islets some 70 miles off the coast of Luzon...
...left to quarrel furiously-"accusing each other of having secretly washed, in violation of an implied contract between tramps." Henry James is said to have shuddered like a giant oak on finding that one of the bums was an official of the Foreign Office, the other, Chesterton's bosom friend and distinguished literary colleague, Mr. Hilaire Belloc...