port-wine stain

[ pawrt-wahyn, pohrt- ]
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noun
  1. a large birthmark of purplish color, usually on the face or neck.

Origin of port-wine stain

1
First recorded in 1885–90

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How to use port-wine stain in a sentence

  • Its head and neck, throat and shoulders, are the colour of a faded port-wine stain.

    Indian Birds | Douglas Dewar
  • It is then comparatively inconspicuous, its neck and wing coverts being the hue of a faded port-wine stain.

    Birds of the Plains | Douglas Dewar

British Dictionary definitions for port wine stain

port wine stain

noun
  1. a type of haemangioma, seen as a purplish birthmark, often large and on the face or neck

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