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Bosom friend

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A very close friend.

    "I pour you the farewell wine as you set out from the capital— Soon I shall be left behind here by my bosom-friend. In your sail-boat of sweet cinnamon-wood You will float again toward your own thatch door"

Etymology

Compound of bosom + friend. Compare typologically Russian напе́рсник (napérsnik), akin to Proto-Slavic *pьrsь, Russian закады́чный друг (zakadýčnyj drug), akin to кады́к (kadýk)).

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