dimple
/ˈdɪm.pəl/ noun B2- A small depression or indentation in a surface. · The accident created a dimple in the hood of the car.
- A small natural depression on the skin, especially on the face near the corners of the mouth. · You have very cute dimples.
- A small depression, made with a punch on a metal object, as a guide for further drilling.
Plural dimples
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From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
I do love to imagine I’m nice and plump, with dimples in my elbows.”
I look at my elbows every morning when I get up to see if any dimples are coming.
Beyond Willowmere came Violet Vale--a little green dimple in the shadow of Mr.
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