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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A representation of the human mouth with slightly upturned corners, characteristic of early Greek sculpture produced before the fifth century BC.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After the Archaic, Period, early period of ancient Greek sculpture.]

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