Crossword-Solution: GRIMACER
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| Dentist's patient, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Maker of faces. | 1 answer |
| Mime, at times | 1 answer |
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On the back of an animal
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
LODSRA
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with GRIMACER (3)
Suivant les traditions de l’art antique, les yeux sont obliques et bridés, le sourire fait toujours grimacer les levres; mais dans les yeux le regard n’est plus indifférent et fixe; il brille d’une lueur de vie et de pensée; le sourire de ces levres n’est plus sec et dur, il semble avoir une douceur attendrie.
Even in the refined age of Louis XIV., it was said of the first comic genius of his country, that he would have attained the perfection of his art, “_Si moins ami du peuple_ en ses doctes peintures, Il n’eût point fait souvent grimacer ses figures, Quitte, pour le bouffon, l’agreable et le fin, Et, sans honte, a Terence allié Tabarin.” BOILEAU.
For instance: The _Cossack_, which should have been called the _Grimacer_, so quaint were the contortions in which it indulged.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1946–1986).