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Cupid's bow   /kjˈupɪdz baʊ/   Listen
Cupid's bow

noun
1.
The double curve of the upper lip when considered to resemble Cupid's bow.
2.
A curved bow with reversed curve ends.






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... was not more fair!), in thin robes of whitest silk, bound in beneath her breast with a golden girdle delicately graven over with scenes of love. All about her were little rosy boys, chosen for their beauty, and clad in naught save downy wings strapped upon their shoulders, and on their backs Cupid's bow and quiver, who fanned her with fans of plumes. Upon the vessel's decks, handling the cordage, that was of silken web, and softly singing to the sound of harps and the beat of oars, were no rough sailors, but women lovely to behold, some robed as Graces and some as ...
— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard



Words linked to "Cupid's bow" :   curved shape, curve, bow



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