Definitions

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  • noun the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth

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Examples

  • What you may not know is Laura and the ringmaster, her husband, have already invested a lot of money in orthodonture for three of the clowns … enough to buy a family cruise vacation.

    05 « November « 2007 « Adventures in Juggling 2007

  • What you may not know is Laura and the ringmaster, her husband, have already invested a lot of money in orthodonture for three of the clowns … enough to buy a family cruise vacation.

    please excuse Laura « Adventures in Juggling 2007

  • She had those perfect teeth, the result of years of expensive orthodonture.

    Bad Marie (An Excerpt) 2010

  • I've done car pools and bag lunches and overwhelming questions; orthodonture, Little League and PTA, difficult choices and the facts of life.

    Calling The Undertaker 2008

  • There will be no killing of the goat today; we might poke it with sharp sticks, or call it fat, or make fun its orthodonture, but no goats have been killed in the making of this blog.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Jay 2007

  • There will be no killing of the goat today; we might poke it with sharp sticks, or call it fat, or make fun its orthodonture, but no goats have been killed in the making of this blog.

    Turn Up the Funny, Turn Down the Suck Jay 2007

  • Only this time without the orthodonture or the algebra, thank god.

    The Girl in the Gray Flannel Dress - A Dress A Day 2006

  • Only this time without the orthodonture or the algebra, thank god.

    August 2006 2006

  • She clicked on a photo of little girls with identical grins and matching orthodonture, feeling a surprising stab of envy.

    html Scottoline, Lisa 2001

  • And how he planned to pay for his daughter's orthodonture.

    Killing Floor Child, Lee 1997

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