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ˈflat-nosed, a.
1. Having a flat nose.
1530Palsgr. 312/2 Flatte nosed, camus. 1575Fleming Virgil's Bucol. x. 9 The litle flat nozde gotes Shall crop and nip the tender twige. 1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 37 If their beloved bee flat nosed, they tearme her amiable. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. 200 The Ethiopian..flat-nosed and crisp-haired. 1853Hickie tr. Aristoph. (1872) II. 648 The..flat-nosed women shall sit by the side of the beautiful.
2. of a tool, as flat-nosed graver.
1871Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. XII. 226 A flat-nosed graver would have left a smooth trough. |