dimpled

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dim·ple

(dĭm′pəl)

1. A small natural indentation in the flesh on a part of the human body, especially in the cheek or on the chin.

2. A slight depression or indentation in a surface.

v. dim·pled, dim·pling, dim·ples

v.intr.

To form dimples by smiling.

v.tr.

To produce dimples in.

[Middle English dimpel.]

dim′ply adj.

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dimpled

(ˈdɪmpld)

adj

1. having small natural dents or creases in the flesh, esp on the cheeks or chin

2. with slight depressions on the surface

3. (of glass) with bubbles or dents

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Translations

dimpled

[ˈdɪmpld] ADJ [cheek, chin] → con hoyuelo; [hand, arm, thigh] → con hoyitos

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dimpled

adj cheek, chin → mit Grübchen; she gave him a dimpled smile → als sie ihn anlächelte, sah man ihre Grübchen

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But one gets only a confused notion of these details when they surround a distractingly pretty girl of seventeen, standing on little pattens and rounding her dimpled arm to lift a pound of butter out of the scale.

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Vesey crossed her dimpled hands on the edge of the table, smiled placidly, and said, "Yes, dear."

Vesey took her dimpled hands off the edge of the table and crossed them on her lap instead; nodded contemplatively at the boiled chicken, and said, "Yes, dear."

Vesey put one of her dimpled hands back again on the edge of the table; hesitated drowsily, and said, "Which you please, dear."

Vesey put the other dimpled hand back on the edge of the table; brightened dimly one moment; went out again the next; bowed obediently, and said, "If you please, sir."

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Rebecca dimpled. "I didn't mean THAT; I have some soap to sell; I mean I would like to introduce to you a very remarkable soap, the best now on the market.

Rebecca dimpled more and more, and at her new friend's invitation sat down on a stool at his side near the edge of the porch.

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No, this was rather one of those smiles which might be supposed to have come from the dimpled cheeks of the august Tisiphone, or from one of the misses, her sisters.

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No charm was wanting, no defect was perceptible; the young girl had regular and delicate lineaments; eyes shaped and coloured as we see them in lovely pictures, large, and dark, and full; the long and shadowy eyelash which encircles a fine eye with so soft a fascination; the pencilled brow which gives such clearness; the white smooth forehead, which adds such repose to the livelier beauties of tint and ray; the cheek oval, fresh, and smooth; the lips, fresh too, ruddy, healthy, sweetly formed; the even and gleaming teeth without flaw; the small dimpled chin; the ornament of rich, plenteous tresses--all advantages, in short, which, combined, realise the ideal of beauty, were fully hers.

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Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish's skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little fringy films of lace; she had deep, tender eyes, with long, curved lashes; and she had peachy cheeks, and a dimpled chin, and such a dear little rosebud of a mouth; and she was so dovelike, so pure, and so gracious, so sweet and so bewitching.

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"So that's what she is like; what a fool I have been!" he thought gazing at her sparkling eyes, and under the mustache a happy rapturous smile dimpled her cheeks, a smile he had never seen before.

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My footsteps were the first to press the firm, unbroken sands;--nothing before had trampled them since last night's flowing tide had obliterated the deepest marks of yesterday, and left them fair and even, except where the subsiding water had left behind it the traces of dimpled pools and little running streams.