It’s used quite often to mean chest. It’s a fill in for saying “breast”, which is usually meaning “inside one’s chest, near to their heart”.
There’s a quote attributed to Albert Einstein though I found no source to which is “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools”, which shows this application.
Shakespear also has Isabella say in Measure for Measure, act 2 scene 2 “Go to your bosom: knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”, which seems most accurately to be describing the chest more vaguely.
I think that these two show how ‘in [one’s] bosom’ often poetically means 'near [one’s] heart", or ‘close to [one’s] chest’. The chest isn’t the point of sentence, it’s more a reference point for describing the actual subject location.
Yeah it seems like it began meaning chest, became a polite way of saying boobs, and eventually the latter edged out the former. Mind you this is in English and the line in question is Portuguese so maybe arguing English semantics isn’t helping us get close to the truth.
If anyone here speaks Portuguese I’d love to hear if that word has any of these implications in Portuguese.
I have never heard the word bosom refer to anything but boobs. Its like a polite term for titties.
It’s used quite often to mean chest. It’s a fill in for saying “breast”, which is usually meaning “inside one’s chest, near to their heart”.
There’s a quote attributed to Albert Einstein though I found no source to which is “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools”, which shows this application.
Shakespear also has Isabella say in Measure for Measure, act 2 scene 2 “Go to your bosom: knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”, which seems most accurately to be describing the chest more vaguely.
I think that these two show how ‘in [one’s] bosom’ often poetically means 'near [one’s] heart", or ‘close to [one’s] chest’. The chest isn’t the point of sentence, it’s more a reference point for describing the actual subject location.
Yeah it seems like it began meaning chest, became a polite way of saying boobs, and eventually the latter edged out the former. Mind you this is in English and the line in question is Portuguese so maybe arguing English semantics isn’t helping us get close to the truth.
If anyone here speaks Portuguese I’d love to hear if that word has any of these implications in Portuguese.
the word “seios” nowadays is largely equivelent to “breasts” but it seems like it meant chest more generally in past
Makes sense, I guess bosom is an excellent translation then lol
The Battle Hymn of the Republic mentions Jesus’s boobs, then.