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/dˈɪmpəl/ Listen

noun

Dimple n.

A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin. "The dimple of her chin."

A slight indentation on any surface. "The garden pool's dark surface... Breaks into dimples small and bright."

verb

Dimple v. t. To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.

Dimple v. i. (past & past part. dimpled; pres. part. dimpling) To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities. "And smiling eddies dimpled on the main."

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Etymology of 'Dimple'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dimple" Quotes from Famous Books

... eyelids. The faintest ghost of a long-buried dimple came into her pale cheek as she said softly, ...

— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... bent towards Miss Sibyl's charming person a thin, alert, fair face. His head was finely shaped, the brown hair worn away a little on the temples. He smiled gravely at intervals; the smile told that he had a dimple in his cheek. ...

— Different Girls • Various

... he had not seen since the dinner-dance at the club, sat beside him in a vivid green dress with large black beads strung from her left shoulder. She looked very well, he reflected; that was a becoming dimple in her cheek. He had had the beginning of an interest in her—new to Eastlake, and her husband dead, she had taken a house there for the winter—but that had vanished now. He was deep ...

— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

... spoke was a bright-eyed girl, with a form of airy grace, Mirth beaming in every dimple sweet of her joyous smiling face: "I ask not much in the favor'd one who this dainty hand would gain;— No ordeal long would I ask of him—no hours of ...

— The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins) • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

... a crutch," she rebuked him, but smiled back, an elusive dimple playing in one lovely brown cheek. "Looking right through anybody is too ghastly for words, but I think they're perfectly all x, anyway, in spite of their being so ...

— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith

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