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Meaning of bustlike | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of a bust.

Examples

“Her lips were not wont to be so cold and white when kissed in that glen-bower; not so moveless and bustlike her bosom.”

“A 1787 Gainsborough shows the painter looking forward, elegantly attired, with an oval shape around the bustlike pose that could well be the frame of a mirror.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

bustling bustluscious bustly busty busy busy as a beaver