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Definition of Breastbones
1. breastbone [n] - See also: breastbone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breastbones
Literary usage of Breastbones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds by Charles Swainson (1885)
"In Richmondshire some persons say that the breastbones of ducks after being cooked
are observed to be dark coloured before a severe winter, and much lighter ..."
2. The Folk Lore and Provincial Names of British Birds by Charles Swainson (1886)
"In Richmondshire some persons say that the breastbones of ducks after being cooked
are observed to be dark coloured before a severe winter, and much lighter ..."
3. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"Some breeders keep their chickens bedded-down on straw or sawdust till their
breastbones are fully formed, but this entails much trouble, and I have not ..."
4. Journal of Economic Entomology by Entomological Society of America, American Association of Economic Entomologists (1911)
"The appearance of the two sexes is presaged by the larva? developing distinct
breastbones, soon followed by a change to the prepupa. ..."
5. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"... that Rosy was right, for sure she's been raisin' breastbones for th' last
thirty years. ..."
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