ppl. a. [f. BREAST sb.]
1. Having a breast; esp. in comb., as big-, narrow-, open-, wide-, flat-breasted.
c. 1314. Guy Warw. (1841), 261. As a somer it is brested bifore in the brede.
c. 1420. in Rel. Ant., I. 232. A Woman … fayre brested.
1522–4. Capon, in Fiddes, Wolsey (1726), coll. 103. Syngyng men byn … very well brested.
1544. Ascham, Toxoph. (Arb.), 126. The bygge brested shafte is fytte for hym.
1626. Cockeram, III. Chymæra, a Monster … brested like a Lyon.
1711. J. Distaff, Char. Don Sacheverellio, 9. Times are altered since you went open Breasted.
1741. Monro, Anat. (ed. 3), 311. [They] become … flat breasted.
2. Ornamented or decorated on the breast.
1829. Blackw. Mag., XXV. 80. Breasted with the cross, they roam on to the Holy Land.
