shell-like
Adjective
Having a similar shape to a seashell.
Of the external ear, resembling the graceful convolutions of a seashell.
Usage- Dated
- Literary
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"Nay, speak not so hastily; consider well the point; take me feature by feature, forgetting not my form, and my hands and feet, and my hair, and the whiteness of my skin, and then tell me truly, hast thou ever known a woman who in aught, ay, in one little portion of her beauty, in the curve of an eyelash even, or the modelling of a shell-like ear, is justified to hold a light before my loveliness?"
Noun
The ear.
Usage- Australia
- UK usage
- especially
- Slang
- in set phrases
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Can I have a quick word in your shell-like, when you've got a moment?
Word forms
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