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- adjective in combinations Having a specific type of
cheekbone
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Examples
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Kathryn's strain of high-cheekboned Slavic seriousness barely registered in either kid.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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Kathryn's strain of high-cheekboned Slavic seriousness barely registered in either kid.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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The resulting video spread like wildfire and that high cheekboned face, with the firmly stated questions, became a kind of popular leader for daring to say publicly what so many remain silent about.
Yoani Sanchez: Macrobiotics in Cuba? Only for El Comandante Yoani Sanchez 2011
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The resulting video spread like wildfire and that high cheekboned face, with the firmly stated questions, became a kind of popular leader for daring to say publicly what so many remain silent about.
Yoani Sanchez: Macrobiotics in Cuba? Only for El Comandante Yoani Sanchez 2011
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On the current list, Keira (no 63 among the girls) is more clear-cut evidence; there's surely no other reference or inspiration than the high-cheekboned Ms Knightley.
Movie stars see their name in lights and on babies Andrew Pulver 2010
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You know, it isn't easy being a member of the well educated, high cheekboned liberal elite.
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It is a truly magic door, like something invented by Roald Dahl, just for children who drink – and lets us slip into a cool, smart hideaway in Soho; and I'm apologising to Bruce Robinson for not being one of this mag's usual stock of clever cheekboned women over-infused with vivre, panache, esprit and other words unacquaintanced in English.
Bruce Robinson: 'I'm just going to take my liver for a wash' 2011
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That's the clash within pro cycling after Monday's decisive mountain stage in the Tour de France, which saw defending champion Alberto Contador of Spain strip the leader's yellow jersey off of his high-cheekboned nemesis, Andy Schleck of Luxembourg.
A New Diva-Tastic 2010
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Then there's the world of fashion, which keeps nicking bits of the skinhead image and sending them down the catwalks: it's hard to be threatened by something modelled by a finely cheekboned teenager called Alonzo.
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The flat-ironed, high-cheekboned fashionista is all over the premiere, debuting next month -- cackling as Lynda Erkiletian declares Michaele Salahi to be anorexic, then telling Michaele what Lynda said.
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