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* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|скула|f}} |
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* Catalan: {{t+|ca|pòmul|m}}, {{t|ca|zigoma|m}} |
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Revision as of 08:57, 29 July 2022
Englisch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English chekebon, chekbone, from Old English ċēacbān (“cheekbone”); equivalent to cheek + bone. Compare Dutch kaakbeen (“jawbone”).
Nomen
cheekbone (plural cheekbones)
- The small prominent bone of the cheek.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
- She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 113:
- A youngish-looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.
Synonyms
Translations
bone
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