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Definition of Noses
1. nose [v] - See also: nose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noses
Literary usage of Noses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"This holds especially in tho matter of noses. A man may have a small, diminutive,
... noses differ from each other, not only in size but also in shape. ..."
2. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"There have been some celebrities whose noses were undersized. The Due de Guise,
the Dauphin d'Auvergne, and William of Orange, celebrated in the romances of ..."
3. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"... from corruption : he might just as probably and successfully have urged, that
legs were made to wear boots, and noses to bear spectacles. SECTION II. ..."
4. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1907)
"noses were generally of the straight FIG. 27. Greek type; but old men and 'parasites'
occasionally had hook noses, and the country youth was provided with a ..."
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