miehusta — meaning in English

English meaning

• bosom noun A person's chest, especially a woman's breasts.
• breast noun Either of the two organs on the front of a woman's chest that can produce milk.
• mantle verb To cover, cloak, or conceal something.
• square noun A four-sided shape with equal sides and right angles.

Senses

miehusta is used for these senses in English:

• bosom The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
• breast A section of clothing covering the breast area.
• mantle A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]
• square The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
• square (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

bosom — full definition

1. noun A person's chest, especially a woman's breasts.
2. noun One's innermost feelings or private thoughts.
3. adj Describing a very close, intimate relationship, especially in "bosom friend."
4. verb To hold something close and protectively, or to hide it from view.

breast — full definition

1. noun Either of the two organs on the front of a woman's chest that can produce milk.
2. noun The chest area of a person or animal.
3. noun A cut of meat from the chest of poultry or other animals.

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