breastsummer

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breastsummer (plural breastsummers)

  1. (architecture) Alternative spelling of bressummer
    • 1885, Jospeh Fitzgerald Molloy, chapter XIX, in of Royalty Restored; Or, London Under Charles II[1]:
      [] warehouses and dwellings of solid brick and carved stone, with doors, window-frames, and breastsummers of stout oak, replaced irregular though not unpicturesque habitations; []