birthmark
a minor disfigurement or blemish on a person's skin at birth; nevus.
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How to use birthmark in a sentence
Close enough to see the tiny scar on his eyelid that looks like a birthmark.
The Stacks: The True Greatness of Muhammad Ali | Peter Richmond | February 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis wire-rimmed glasses rested just below the round birthmark that adorns his forehead.
And the papers of Braulinski of the old University of Warsaw on the fear trauma which he termed a birthmark of civilization.
Often this eccentricity bore all the marks of strength; perhaps it was actual exuberance of force, a birthmark of genius.
The Education of Henry Adams | Henry AdamsHe was heavily built, with an undershot jaw and a patch of liverish birthmark on his cheek.
The Last Shot | Frederick Palmer
She gloried in the impact that felled the great brute with the liver patch on his cheek, which was like a birthmark of war.
The Last Shot | Frederick PalmerWithout hesitation I set down the bad as born to be foes not friends, and as bearing the birthmark of internecine hate.
The Memorabilia | Xenophon
British Dictionary definitions for birthmark
/ (ˈbɜːθˌmɑːk) /
a blemish or new growth on skin formed before birth, usually brown or dark red; naevus
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