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cheekboned

cheekboned adjective: having a specific type of cheekbone.

Adjective

cheekboned (not comparable)

  1. Having a specific type of cheekbone
    • One young, long-sideburned riding instructor had been a successful account executive in a leading New York ad agency; another riding instructor, a high-cheekboned blond girl, had worked as a research chemist in Chicago.1969 June 27, LIFE, volume 66, number 25, page 56
    • Late Saturday night she joined Brian and Jerry Schwartz and two cheekboned blondes and the lead singer and the lead guitarist from one of her favorite bands for drinks on the little railed-in aerie that Brian had rigged on the roof of the Generator.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Origin of cheekboned

From cheekbone + -ed.

Questions about cheekboned

What does cheekboned mean?
Cheekboned means having a specific type of cheekbone.
What part of speech is cheekboned?
Cheekboned is an adjective.

Words near cheekboned in the dictionary

  1. cheek-bone
  2. cheek-bones
  3. cheek-by-jowl
  4. cheek-to-jowl
  5. cheekbone
  6. cheekboned
  7. cheekbones
  8. cheekbony
  9. cheeke
  10. cheeked
  11. cheeked it out

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