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Etymology

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From breast +‎ -like.

Adjective

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breastlike (comparative more breastlike, superlative most breastlike)

  1. Resembling a breast or breasts.
    • 1990, Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions:
      In recent years Bourgeois has devoted much time to her Cumul series, suggested by the round, breastlike forms of cumulus clouds.
    • 2009 August 21, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times[1]:
      Well, there’s Sarah Lucas’s “Cigarette Tits II (Idealized Smoker’s Chest II)” from 1999, a sculpture that conjures rebellious female debauchery with a side chair, two breastlike hemispheres covered with cigarettes and a black bra.

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