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cheekbones

cheekbones is the plural 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

Questions about cheekbones

What is cheekbones the plural of?
Cheekbones is the plural of cheekbone.

Words near cheekbones in the dictionary

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

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