chestal

adj

chestal

adj

Etymology From chest + -al.

1

Informal of, or pertaining to, the chest region

  • In a long-skirted, gold and green and white cotton affair that slides mildly over her chestal area right up to her neck.1979, Ascent, volume 5, Christian Endeavour Union of Great Britain and Ireland, page 54:
  • 1994 Jonathan Collier, "Bart's Girlfriend," The Simpsons, Season 6, Episode 7 (aired 6 November 1994), spoken by Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright). I'm all tense through the chestal area!
2 more examples
  • 1999 Out, Vol. 8, No. 3 (September 1999), Here Publishing Feeling cursed with too little in the chestal region?
  • I'd be lying to myself if I pretended that seeing Logan here now isn't causing a parade of elephants to stampede through my upper chestal region.2008, Micol Ostow, Popular Vote, Scholastic Inc., page 189:

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