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    CUPID'S BOW

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A curved bow with reversed curve endsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("Cupid's bow" is a kind of...):

    bow (a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    The double curve of the upper lip when considered to resemble Cupid's bowplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

    Hypernyms ("Cupid's bow" is a kind of...):

    curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)

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