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button nose en · NOUN
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) A nose with a small size and a relatively flat, round shape, usually considered to be dainty or cute in appearance.
She had little features, a button nose, a pretty chin and a long graceful neck.
1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 2, in Tono Bungay:Tintin, the comic strip hero with the button nose, poppy-seed eyes and blond flip hairdo, is now an institution.
1993 June 6, Edmund White, "Sapristi! Is This Our Tintin?" (review of Tintin in the New World: A Romance by Frederic Tuten), New York Times (retrieved 17 May 2014)You can't buy BRAD PITT's icy blue eyes or JENNIFER ANISTON's adorable button nose.
2001 July 30, Josh Tyrangiel, “People: With these rings, we thee sue”, in Time, retrieved 17 May 2014:
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(idiomatic) A person having such a nose.
Surprisingly, the film is delightful—mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger Bay.
1961 July 7, “Cinema: Adults Are Boobs”, in Time, retrieved 17 May 2014:
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snub nose · pug nose