nose
/noʊ̯z/ nom A1En français : nez, museau, gueule, trompe
- A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell. · She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.
- A snout, the nose of an animal.
- The tip of an object. · the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
- The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
- The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race. · Red Rum only won by a nose.
- A perfumer.
- The sense of smell.
- Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
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Dans la bibliothèque
“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose— What made you so awfully clever?”
At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out, straight at the Footman’s head: it just grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.
“Oh, there goes his _precious_ nose!” as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off.
There could be no doubt that it had a _very_ turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at all.
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