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Cheekbone   Listen
noun
cheekbone  n.  The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
Synonyms: zygomatic bone, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum.






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"Cheekbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... roots of his hair to his mouth. It sloped away down the left jaw, and somewhat up the cheekbone of the right side. The mask was firmly strapped in place around the ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... stiffly congratulated her sister-in-law, and pressed a meagre cheekbone against Wilhelmine's glowing face; she called this a kiss. Pfahler bowed before the bride: 'I have had the honour to meet your Highness,'—Wilhelmine started, Zollern tapped with his stick impatiently—'to meet your Highness before—one day at Tuebingen; ...
— A German Pompadour - Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Graevenitz, - Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg • Marie Hay

... straight at Sarpi, while the others stood on guard and held down Fra Marino. Fifteen blows in all were aimed at Sarpi, three of which struck him in the neck and face. The stiletto remained firmly embedded in his cheekbone between the right ear and nose. He fell to the ground senseless; and a cry being raised by some women who had witnessed the outrage from a window, the assassins made off, leaving their victim for dead. It was noticed that they took refuge in the palace of the ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds



Words linked to "Cheekbone" :   jugale, zygomatic bone, os zygomaticum, jugal point, bone, jugal bone, malar bone, os, zygomatic process, malar, zygomatic, zygoma



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