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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A representation of the human mouth with slightly upturned corners, characteristic of early Greek sculpture produced before the fifth century BC.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the Archaic, Period, early period of ancient Greek sculpture.]
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