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
The face was dark in complexion, with black hair, the nose a trifle tip-tilted, and the lips full and red, but altogether a face very alluring and handsome.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
She had merely added a pair of eye-glasses to her tip-tilted critical nose and there was, perhaps, an extra spark of dry humor in her pale eyes.
From Molly Brown's Sophomore Days by Speed, Nell
"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 Chartres, Annie Vivanti
"Yes, and you say a great many things that are supremely foolish," retorted Mabel, turning up her tip-tilted nose a little more, in fine scorn.
From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram
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