cheekboned
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cheekboned (not comparable)
- (chiefly in combinations) Having a specific type of cheekbone
- 1969 June 27, LIFE, volume 66, number 25, page 56:
- 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.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
- 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.
- 2009 January 15, “Rock, Pop and Roots”, in Herald Sun[1], archived from the original on 3 September 2009:
- WHITLEY Impressively cheekboned folk pop merchant has a knack with banter and hooks .