cicatrice
Americannoun
plural
cicatricesOther Word Forms
- cicatrical adjective
- cicatricial adjective
- noncicatricial adjective
- paracicatricial adjective
Example Sentences
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For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nigel turned pale as his eyes rested upon the cicatrice, showing like a whitish seam through the slight coating of blood.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne
What a delectable conspirator!' laughed my lord, cooling his aching head against the wall, while the cicatrice on his forehead grew red, and an evil glitter shone in his eyes.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
The cicatrice, combined with the natural ugliness of the features, and the greasy ocher and paint, daubed and smeared over the skin, rendered the countenance of the warrior as frightful as can be conceived.
From Footprints in the Forest by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
There was the cicatrice of an old wound on a lower limb, but otherwise there was no spot or blemish upon the body.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney
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