bosoming
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[edit]Verb
[edit]bosoming
- present participle and gerund of bosom
- 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers[1]:
- Beyond were the pines, and a rugged road, flint-edged, full of dips and rises, turns and twists, hovering on edges, or bosoming itself in deep rock-strewn cuts.
- 1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth[2]:
- Those whom you feared most are now bosoming themselves in the queen's grace; and though her highness signified displeasure in outward sort, yet did she like the marrow of your book.