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tip-tilted

adjective

  1. (of a nose) slightly turned up
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Archness became this lady of the sunny hair, tip-tilted nose, and complexion that outvied the apple-blossoms.

Love has come rushing to the beck of a tip-tilted chin, or the tone of a voice, or the droop of an eyelid.

There was no mistaking the long, tip-tilted nose of the shorter man and the glinting spectacles of the other.

Robespierre eyed him narrowly for a moment, peering at him over his spectacles which he had drawn down on to his tip-tilted nose.

His tip tilted nose gave him a cheerful, rather impertinent expression.

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