chest
/t͡ʃɛst/ nom A2En français : coffre, commode, chiffonnier, poitrine
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid. · The clothes are kept in a chest.
- The place in which public money is kept; a treasury. · You can take the money from the chest.
- A chest of drawers.
- The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals. · Holonyms: torso, trunk < body· She had a sudden pain in her chest.
- The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso. · Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk· He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
- A female human's breasts. · He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.
- A hit or blow made with one's chest. · She scored with a chest into the goal.
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Dans la bibliothèque
I have some smuggled coffee and most capital tobacco, in a small chest in the hold, which you shall have tomorrow.
Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.
“Good!” said the gendarme, placing his knee on his chest; “this is the way you keep your word as a sailor!
Lying across his chest was a curious weapon, a shotgun with the barrel sawed off a foot in front of the triggers.
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