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Pigeon-breasted

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pigeon breast
n.
A chest deformity marked by a projecting sternum, often occurring as a result of infantile rickets. Also called chicken breast.
pigeon-breasted (pjn-brstd) adj.
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Adj.1.pigeon-breasted - having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets
chicken-breasted
unshapely - not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape; "a stout unshapely woman"
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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 with extraordinary earnestness at nothing.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
Four pigeon-breasted retainers in plain clothes stand in line in the hall.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
Like tailors' dummies they were headless; and like tailors' dummies they had a handsome unnecessary humpiness in the shoulders, and a pigeon-breasted protuberance of chest; but barring this, they were not much more like a human figure than any automatic machine at a station that is about the human height.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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