museau

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UK/mjuːˈzəʊ/

noun

Someone's face.

OriginFrench museau →
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Meanings

noun
  1. literarySomeone's face.

    He was the baby of the family, a young man of twenty-two, with a fresh, jaunty museau.

    1922, DH Lawrence, ‘The Horse-dealer's Daughter’, England, My England
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    I was dark with a round museau of a face and thick lips and a pug nose and high cheekbones and deep-set brown eyes and a bush of black hair.

    1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 33

Origin

  1. Frenchmuseau
  2. Englishmuseau

From French museau. Doublet of muzzle.

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APA

museau. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/museau

MLA

“museau.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/museau. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “museau,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/museau.

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