cicatrice
Americannoun
plural
cicatricesOther Word Forms
- cicatrical adjective
- cicatricial adjective
- noncicatricial adjective
- paracicatricial adjective
Example Sentences
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What a delectable conspirator!' laughed my lord, cooling his aching head against the wall, while the cicatrice on his forehead grew red, and an evil glitter shone in his eyes.
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The handsome stalwart fellow, bronzed and weather-worn, his brow crossed by a deep and honourable cicatrice!
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The sword of overwhelming tragedy had stripped off the protecting cicatrice of pride and arrogant resentment and bared the lonely soul beneath, that in this shuddering instant groped wildly for human comfort.
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Chest and back were covered with skin decoration of the cicatrice type, which, healing without any tendency to keloid, left a smooth mark, distinguished by its lustre only from the normal surface.
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They saw it was an old cicatrice, sure to be recognised by any father who had taken the slightest interest in the physical condition of his son.
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