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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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Origin of archaic smile
First recorded in 1900–05
Words nearby archaic smile
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