Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The breast of a pigeon.
- noun A deformity occurring in persons affected with rickets, in which the costal cartilages are bent inward, and the sternum or breast-bone is thrown forward.
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Examples
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Ambition, the vice of great souls, burned within Spofford's pigeon-breast.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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The circumference of the trunk at the nipples was 62 inches, and over the most prominent portion of the kyphosis and pigeon-breast, 74 inches.
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Under these circumstances the humerus and femur appear to be the bones most likely to break; there is an associate deformity of the head, known as "craniotabes," together with pigeon-breast and various spinal curvature.
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The circumference of the trunk at the nipples was 62 inches, and over the most prominent portion of the kyphosis and pigeon-breast, 74 inches.
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Under these circumstances the humerus and femur appear to be the bones most likely to break; there is an associate deformity of the head, known as ` ` craniotabes, '' together with pigeon-breast and various spinal curvature.
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He was not an inch taller than the woman, had broad, square shoulders, pigeon-breast, and invisible neck.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864
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-- Now, as you know, I live in a sort of live coffin here, "continued the little man, striking his pigeon-breast," with a barrel-organ of discords in it, constantly out of order in one way or another; and hence it comes that my sleep is so imperfect, and my dreams run more than is usual, as I believe, on in the direction of my last waking thoughts.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2 George MacDonald 1864
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He was not an inch taller than the woman, had broad, square shoulders, pigeon-breast, and invisible neck.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1 George MacDonald 1864
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-- Now, as you know, I live in a sort of live coffin here, "continued the little man, striking his pigeon-breast," with a barrel-organ of discords in it, constantly out of order in one way or another; and hence it comes that my sleep is so imperfect, and my dreams run more than is usual, as I believe, on in the direction of my last waking thoughts.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864
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From his long arms and legs, his "pigeon-breast" chest, and even stretch marks, Daniel has many of the classic signs.
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