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cheek-bone

cheek-bone is the alternative spelling of cheekbone.

Meaning of cheekbone

Noun

cheekbone (plural cheekbones)

  1. The small prominent bone of the cheek.
    • 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.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

Forms of cheek-bone

pluralcheek-bones

Questions about cheek-bone

What is cheek-bone the alternative spelling of?
Cheek-bone is the alternative spelling of cheekbone.

Words near cheek-bone in the dictionary

  1. cheek to cheek
  2. cheek to jowl
  3. cheek tooth
  4. cheek up
  5. cheek up to
  6. cheek-bone
  7. cheek-bones
  8. cheek-by-jowl
  9. cheek-to-jowl
  10. cheekbone
  11. cheekboned

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