museau
English
Etymology
From French museau. Doublet of muzzle.
Pronunciation
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Noun
museau
- (chiefly literary) Someone's face.
- 1922, DH Lawrence, ‘The Horse-dealer's Daughter’, England, My England:
- He was the baby of the family, a young man of twenty-two, with a fresh, jaunty museau.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 33:
- I was dark with a round museau of a face and thick lips and a pug nose and high cheekbones and deep-set brown eyes and a bush of black hair.
- 1922, DH Lawrence, ‘The Horse-dealer's Daughter’, England, My England:
French
Etymology
From Middle French musel
Pronunciation
Noun
museau m (plural museaux)
- snout, muzzle (long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast)
- (colloquial) face
Further reading
- “museau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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