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Pectoral   /pˈɛktərəl/   Listen
Pectoral

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the chest or thorax.  Synonym: thoracic.



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"Pectoral" Quotes from Famous Books



... their muskets, that gallant force of revenue men steadily scoured the neighborhood; and the further they went, the worse they fared. There was not a horse standing down by a pool, with his stiff legs shut up into biped form, nor a cow staring blandly across an old rail, nor a sheep with a pectoral cough behind a hedge, nor a rabbit making rustle at the eyebrow of his hole, nor even a moot, that might either be a man or hold a man inside it, whom or which those active fellows did not circumvent and poke into. In ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... adoration. Such a man might be a grocer, or a local mayor, or a duke; it was all one; he was a child of Mary; and he loved her with all his heart, and Gabriel's salute was on his lips. Then the priests began to come; long lines of them in black; then white cottas; then gleams of purple; then a pectoral cross or two; and last the great canopy swaying with all its ...
— Lourdes • Robert Hugh Benson



Words linked to "Pectoral" :   striated muscle, adornment, pectoral fin, musculus pectoralis major, chest, skeletal muscle, pectus, thorax



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