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Adonis belt en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The iliac furrows.
    • I have been working hard on my cardio routine to develop a very pronounced Adonis belt.
    • aficionados (or at least the more aesthetically minded among them) sometimes refer to this as an 'Apollo's belt' or 'Adonis girdle' – a classic case of reality mirroring art, rather than the other way round. 2011, Michael Squire, The Art of the Body: Antiquity and Its Legacy, page 61:

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Adonis belts Number=Plur lexicographic