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bosom friend

[booz-uhm frend] / ˈbʊz əm ˈfrɛnd /


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Let there be no propaganda, said Creel to his bosom friend, Woodrow Wilson; let there be "unparalleled openness," "expression, not repression"�in short, "voluntary censorship."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor, has been regaling readers with the letters of Topsy, exclamatory and energetic post-War type, to her bosom friend.

From Time Magazine Archive

But most of the new material consists of Author Gogarty's telling a lot more stories about his bosom friend Dr. Gogarty.

From Time Magazine Archive

I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby’s, made a feint of being the bosom friend of Miss Skiffins.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens



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