“pigeon、breast”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pigeon-breast

释义

ˈpigeon-breast Path.
A deformed human chest, laterally constricted, so that the sternum is thrust forward, as in a pigeon.
1842Dickens Let. 3 Apr. (1974) III. 180 That valiant general..is an old, old man with..the remains of a pigeon-breast in his military surtout.1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 1039/2 It was observed that he had the ‘pigeon breast’ form of chest.1879Khory Princ. Med. 46 The pigeon-breast is produced by pressure on their ribs at their angles when they are young and yielding.
So ˈpigeon-ˌbreasted a., having a breast narrow and projecting like a pigeon's.
1815Southey in Q. Rev. July 509 The French cuirass is made pigeon-breasted, so that unless a musket ball be fired very near it is turned off.1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 300 Madame la duchesse, in her..long-waisted, pigeon-breasted gown.1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxviii, All the [waxwork] gentlemen were very pigeon-breasted.1872T. G. Thomas Dis. Women 67 Of rather lanky appearance and pigeon-breasted.

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