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breast beam

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breast beam

–noun
1. a horizontal bar, located at the front of a loom, over which the woven material is passed on its way to the cloth roll.
2. Architecture. breastsummer.

Origin:
1780–90

breast⋅sum⋅mer

[bres-suhm-er, brest-, bres-uh-mer]
–noun Architecture.
a horizontal beam supporting an exterior wall over an opening, as a shop window.
Also called breast beam.


Origin:
1605–15; breast + summer 2
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