cheekbone

English
A side view of the skull, showing the cheekbone under the name zygomatic.

Alternative forms
  • cheek bone

Etymology

From Middle English chekebon, chekbone, from Old English ċēacbān (“cheekbone”), equivalent to cheek +‎ bone. Compare Dutch kaakbeen (“jawbone”).

Noun

cheekbone (plural cheekbones)

  1. The small prominent bone of the cheek.
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:
      She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.

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