archaic smile
noun Fine Arts.
a conventional representation of the mouth characterized by slightly upturned corners of the lips, found especially on Greek sculpture produced prior to the 5th century b.c.
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Nearby words
archaeozoic, archaezoology, archaic, archaic homo, archaic homo sapiens, archaic smile, archaicism, archaism, archaize, archangel, archangelic
Origin of archaic smile
First recorded in 1900–05
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