button nose

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button nose (plural button noses)

1. (idiomatic) A nose with a small size and a relatively flat, round shape, usually considered to be dainty or cute in appearance.
   • 1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 2, in Tono Bungay:

     She had little features, a button nose, a pretty chin and a long graceful neck.

   • 1993 June 6, Edmund White, "Sapristi! Is This Our Tintin?" (review of Tintin in the New World: A Romance by Frederic Tuten), New York Times (retrieved 17 May 2014):

     Tintin, the comic strip hero with the button nose, poppy-seed eyes and blond flip hairdo, is now an institution.

   • 2001 July 30, Josh Tyrangiel, "People: With these rings, we thee sue," Time (retrieved 17 May 2014):

     You can't buy BRAD PITT's icy blue eyes or JENNIFER ANISTON's adorable button nose.

2. (idiomatic) A person having such a nose.
   • 1961 July 7, "Cinema: Adults Are Boobs," Time (retrieved 17 May 2014):

     Surprisingly, the film is delightful—mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger Bay.

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