Meaning & use
Bosoms
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A person's chest, especially a woman's breasts, or, figuratively, the emotional or protective center of something.
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She clutched the letter to her bosoms and wept.
He grew up in the warm bosoms of a large, loving family.
A note on using this word
Although grammatically plural, 'bosoms' is used somewhat old-fashionedly where modern speech would simply say 'chest'; the figurative sense survives in phrases like 'the bosom of the family.'
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