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cheek bone en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of cheekbone.
    alt of cheekbone
    • A flush on his prominent cheek bones each afternoon hinted that a clinical thermometer might have revealed a symptom, and percussion might have established the fact that McGuire was breathing with only one lung, but his appearance remained the same. 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 175, column 2:

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cheek bones Number=Plur lexicographic