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flews

[ flooz ]

plural noun

  1. the large, pendulous sides of the upper lip of certain dogs, as bloodhounds.


flews

/ ڱː /

plural noun

  1. the fleshy hanging upper lip of a bloodhound or similar dog
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of flews1

First recorded in 1565–75; origin uncertain
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Word History and Origins

Origin of flews1

C16: of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

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He has a houndlike face, with droopy flews.

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The lips are darkly pigmented and are pendulous, falling squarely in front and, toward the back, in loose hanging flews.

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Many also achieved secondary but more lasting fame: Marie Duplessis was the prototype for the heroines of Dumas' La Dame aux camelias and La Traviata; Blanche d'Antigny was transformed by Zola into Nana and Apollonie Sabatier was the real-life la Muse et la Madone of Baudelaire's Les Flews du nuil.

As day broke blue and bitter in the ashen east, a team of spent huskies with ice-hung lips and flews swung in from the trail skirting the lee shore of Big Island and the driver in belted caribou capote, a rim of ice from his frozen breath circling his lean face, made a fire from cedar kindlings brought on the sled, boiled tea and pemmican, and feeding his dogs, lay down in his robes.

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Yesterday I'd ben willin to bet a 20-cent seegar that my gal, Maria, would 'er lep cross one of the flews of Haydies for me.

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