Sculptures showing a person's head and shoulders; also means breaking something or catching someone doing something wrong.
From Italian 'busto' (trunk or torso), from Latin 'bustum' (funeral pyre). As a verb 'bust,' it comes from 'burst' (Old English 'berstan') meaning to break apart.
Roman emperors commissioned marble busts because they believed sculptures captured a person's soul and essence—that's why museums filled entire rooms with them, treating them like captured immortality.
Slang for breast; historically used to reduce women to body parts or sexualize them. Overlaps with art term (sculpture), creating ambiguity that can reinforce objectification.
Use 'sculptures' or 'busts' only in clear art-historical context; avoid in informal settings where sexualization may result.
["sculptures","statues"]
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