laugh line

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A laugh line.

Noun

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laugh line (plural laugh lines)

  1. (usually in the plural) Either of the two skin folds that run from each side of the nose to the corners of the mouth.
    Synonyms: nasolabial fold, smile line
    • 2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 157:
      She studied his face. The bushy brows he refused to let her trim, the laugh lines that branched out from his nostrils to kiss the edges of his full lips, the chin that could have been chiselled out of stone.

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