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i subscribe to something called "a word a day" and this is the word for today
- one i didn't know, too.
breastsummer (BRES-sum-uhr, BREST-, BRES-e-muhr) noun
A horizontal beam supporting an exterior wall over an opening, as a shop
window. Also called breast beam.
[Breast + summer.]
"Breakfast-room has inglenook fireplace with breastsummer beam over
window seat."
Alexander Garrett, Property: Room for improvement, The Daily Telegraph
Jan 8, 2000.
carol brussel IBCLC
one word richer
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