breasted

English

Etymology

breast +‎ -ed

Adjective

breasted (not comparable)

1. Having a breast, or breasts.
   • 2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11:

     He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.

2. (in combination) Having a specified kind of breast or covering.
   • 1884, Charles Louis Flint, The American Farmer, page 480:

     The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the Black-breasted Red, with fawn-breasted partridge hens; the Brown-breasted Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the Red-breasted Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.

Derived terms

• double-breasted
• single-breasted

Verb

breasted

1. simple past tense and past participle of breast

Anagrams

• Bearsted, betreads, debaters, debreast