See breost on Wiktionary
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],
"links": [
[
"chest",
"chest"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Certainly when he leaned over the Healer's (Jesus') breasts, he said to him, Lord, who is he?",
"roman": "Witodlīce þā hē hlinode ofer ðæs Hǣlendes brēostum, hē cwæð tō him, Drihten, hwæt ys hē?",
"text": "c. 990, Wessex Gospels, \"Gospel of Saint John\", chapter 13, verse 25",
"translation": "Certainly when he leaned over the Healer's (Jesus') breasts, he said to him, Lord, who is he?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "Herod ordered that the children be torn from their mothers' breasts and bosoms, and when they were killed they spat out the milk before the blood.",
"text": "late 9th century, Old English Martyrology\nHerodes hēt tīon þā ċild of hira mōdor brēostum ond bōsmum, ond þonne man þā ċild cwealde, þonne spiwon hīe þā meoloc ǣr þæt blōd.",
"translation": "Herod ordered that the children be torn from their mothers' breasts and bosoms, and when they were killed they spat out the milk before the blood.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"breast"
],
"links": [
[
"breast",
"breast"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"heart (seat of emotions located in the chest area)"
],
"links": [
[
"heart",
"heart"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bre͜oːst/"
}
],
"word": "breost"
}
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