tip-tilted
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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From her mother, Mexican Actress Lupita Tovar, she inherited liquid, tip-tilted eyes of striking beauty.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I should like to go to Italy," she said, "to a little village tip-tilted over the sea, called Porto Venere."
From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres
It was good to lift the hat to Dr. Gillespie as he went along—hat a little tip-tilted off the broadly-furrowed brow.
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
I fancy I hear some dear creature with nose "tip-tilted like a flower" exclaim, "any sensible woman believing in cards."
From There is no Death by Florence Marryatt
There was no mistaking the long, tip-tilted nose of the shorter man and the glinting spectacles of the other.
From The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Bannister Merwin
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