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nose piece

nose piece is the alternative form of nosepiece.

Meaning of nosepiece

Noun

nosepiece (plural nosepieces)

  1. Anything (originally a piece of armour) that protects the nose.
    • The big craze from this source [television] in 1966 was for a Batman outfit. This consisted of a large black cape, shaped cowl and pants with belt, with 'shimmering P.V.C. contrasting bat decorations'. So for 29s. 6d. a child was disguised and pictured himself flying over the treetops and in fact...1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 186
  2. An animal's noseband.
  3. The bridge between spectacle lenses that rests on the nose.
  4. The part of a microscope that holds the objectives.
  5. The outer end or point of a pipe, bellows, etc.

Forms of nose piece

pluralnose pieces

Questions about nose piece

What is nose piece the alternative form of?
Nose piece is the alternative form of nosepiece.

Words near nose piece in the dictionary

  1. nose pad
  2. nose pads
  3. nose paint
  4. nose peg
  5. nose pegs
  6. nose piece
  7. nose pieces
  8. nose piercing
  9. nose piercings
  10. nose poke
  11. nose poked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nose piece (page history and authors); nosepiece (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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