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Definition of Cheeked

1. a. Having a cheek; -- used in composition.

Definition of Cheeked

1. Adjective. (context: usually in combination) Having some specific type of cheek. ¹

2. Verb. (past of cheek) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cheeked

1. cheek [v] - See also: cheek

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheeked

Literary usage of Cheeked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Hour Glass ; Cathleen Ni Houlihan ; The Pot of Broth by William Butler Yeats (1905)
"Many that are red- cheeked now will be pale-cheeked ; many that have been free to walk the hills and the bogs and the rushes, will be sent to walk hard ..."

2. English Lyric Poetry, 1500-1700 by Frederic Ives Carpenter (1897)
"ROSE-cheeked LAURA. From Campion's Observations on the Art of English Poesy, 1602. DOSE-cheeked Laura, come; Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's Silent ..."

3. English Poems by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1909)
"ROSE-cheeked LAURA, COME Rose-cheeked Laura, come; Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's Silent music, either other Sweetly gracing. 1601. ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Red-cheeked Woodpecker. P. Undatus. Enl. 553. Lion-colour, marked with dusky bars; plat of red under the eyes. Guiana. Little Woodpecker. P. Pubescens. ..."

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