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noun

Dimple n.

A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin. "The dimple of her chin."

A slight indentation on any surface. "The garden pool's dark surface... Breaks into dimples small and bright."

verb

Dimple v. t. To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.

Dimple v. i. (past & past part. dimpled; pres. part. dimpling) To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities. "And smiling eddies dimpled on the main."

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Etymology of 'Dimple'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dimple" Quotes from Famous Books

... his hoe among the callots and cabbagee, with the automatic stroke of a man brought up to one holiday per annum, and no Sunday. Meanwhile, the unreturning sands of Life dribbled through the unheeded isthmus of the Present Moment; and the fixed cone of the Past expanded; and the dimple deepened in the diminished and ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... out of which looked a white face with gleaming violet eyes. The other maiden had dark brown eyes, very large, very luminous; her cheeks were rosy, with just a hint of bronzing by the sunshine, a dimple in her chin added to the effect of her pouting red lips; her dark brown hair was unbound and falling loosely over her deep crimson mantle, which reached from her waist in five heavy folds. The recumbent ...

— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell

... going out, and it was at the going-out of the tide that the best fishing was to be had. There was no wind, and the lagoon lay like a sheet of glass, with just a dimple here and there where the outgoing tide made ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... have; and a bright olive complexion, only the olive was a little too brown, the skin a little too coarse; and then Feemy's mouth was, oh! half an inch too long; but her teeth were white and good, and her chin was well turned and short, with a dimple on it large enough for any finger Venus might put there. In all, Feemy was a fine girl in the eyes of a man not too much accustomed to refinement. Her hands were too large and too red, but if Feemy got gloves ...

— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope

... instant a dimple flickered at the corner of her mouth. It departed. But departing, it swept the storm ...

— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

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