Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, of a serpent, coiled up, with the head projecting from the folds; bowed-embowed.
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The mouth, with its delicate rose-coloured ellipse; the nose, with smooth straight outline, and small recurvant nostril; the arching brows of jet; the long fringes upon the eyelids; all were vividly before me, and all unlike the features of Eugenie Besancon.
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