malar

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Pertaining to the cheek.

   Whose? Les yeux morts d'Eurydice, he says, but suspects they beckon, they and that malar elegance.

2. 2
   noun

   the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek

3. 3
   noun

   The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.

From modern Latin malaris, from Latin mala (“jaw, cheek-bone”).

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