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tip-tilted

adjective

  1. (of a nose) slightly turned up
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

When the Communists took over in 1949 they turned the three-storey edifice, with its roof of glazed green tiles and tip-tilted eaves, into a state guesthouse.

I fancy I hear some dear creature with nose "tip-tilted like a flower" exclaim, "any sensible woman believing in cards."

She saw Porto Venere white in the sunshine, tip-tilted over the sea, and she saw The Book that was to live, to live after all.

A pair of black eyes, a head covered with short brown curls, two red cheeks, and a tip-tilted nose—that was Susan.

The face was dark in complexion, with black hair, the nose a trifle tip-tilted, and the lips full and red, but altogether a face very alluring and handsome.

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