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Dimple

noun

A chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached. Synonyms: dimpled chad, pregnant chad.

Any slight depression in a surface.

A small natural hollow in the cheek or chin.

verb

(past & past part. dimpled; pres. part. dimpling)

Mark with, or as if with, dimples.

Produce dimples while smiling.

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"Dimple" Quotes from Famous Books

... eyelids. The faintest ghost of a long-buried dimple came into her pale cheek as she said softly, ...

— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... bent towards Miss Sibyl's charming person a thin, alert, fair face. His head was finely shaped, the brown hair worn away a little on the temples. He smiled gravely at intervals; the smile told that he had a dimple in his cheek. ...

— Different Girls • Various

... he had not seen since the dinner-dance at the club, sat beside him in a vivid green dress with large black beads strung from her left shoulder. She looked very well, he reflected; that was a becoming dimple in her cheek. He had had the beginning of an interest in her—new to Eastlake, and her husband dead, she had taken a house there for the winter—but that had vanished now. He was deep ...

— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

... spoke was a bright-eyed girl, with a form of airy grace, Mirth beaming in every dimple sweet of her joyous smiling face: "I ask not much in the favor'd one who this dainty hand would gain;— No ordeal long would I ask of him—no hours of ...

— The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins) • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

... a crutch," she rebuked him, but smiled back, an elusive dimple playing in one lovely brown cheek. "Looking right through anybody is too ghastly for words, but I think they're perfectly all x, anyway, in spite of their being so ...

— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith

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