Breastsummer

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Noun
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breast=sum=mer

CIDE DICTIONARY

Breastsummern. 
     A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Breastsummer, n. Archit. a beam across a broad opening, sustaining a superstructure.

Etymology
BREAST + SUMMER(2)

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