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  1. n. Plural form of cheekbone.

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  • “Wrap around sunglasses too. the bridge of my nose and my cheekbones are the docs prime targets when he moves in to freeze and burn.”

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo.

  • “Her cheekbones were a little too sharp to qualify her as a classic beauty, and the eyes a bit too direct, but otherwise she could have passed for a fashion model.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Mesa Conspiracy

  • “The hair was different and the cheekbones were a bit higher, more prominent, but the girl in the newspaper was a dead ringer for Vera.”

    Jackson's Woman

  • “His cheekbones were a touch more prominent than most.”

    Motive For Marriage

  • “If their cheekbones were a little too high, their Delft blue eyes a little too small, their colour was of the proverbial rose-leaves and cream.”

    A Far Country — Complete

  • “I think it's because the cheekbones are a little more defined.”

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  • “She had the kind of cheekbones you could see from the back of her head.”

    Margot Magowan: The Careless Bride: A Novel In Progress

  • “Perfect nose, the kind of cheekbones you see in magazines.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Nature of Jade

  • “I would go to try out a game, and be told I have to tweak things like "cheekbones" or select from fifty different shades of skin tone and forty different eyebrow shapes before I could get started.”

    My Other Self is an Ass-kicking Supermodel

  • “When side fill is used it is possible for body parts such as cheekbones to shade it from other areas such as the "smile line" crease next to the mouth, or the area of the cheek where the nose shadow created by the key light falls.”

    Strobist

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‘cheekbones’ has been looked up 304 times, and has a Scrabble score of 21.