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Pigeon-breasted   /pˈɪdʒən-brˈɛstəd/   Listen
Pigeon-breasted

adjective
1.
Having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets.  Synonym: chicken-breasted.






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"Pigeon-breasted" Quotes from Famous Books



... various climes and times, and standing more or less unsteadily upon their legs, with their eyes very wide open, and their nostrils very much inflated, and the muscles of their legs and arms very strongly developed, and all their countenances expressing great surprise. All the gentlemen were very pigeon-breasted and very blue about the beards; and all the ladies were miraculous figures; and all the ladies and all the gentlemen were looking intensely nowhere, and staring ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens



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