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CUPID'S BOW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A curved bow with reversed curve ends
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 bow
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)