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Dewlap

noun
1.
A hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck.





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"Dewlap" Quotes from Famous Books



... been received by the Society from India, and is one of the largest that has ever been seen in Europe. It is equal in size to the larger breeds of our native oxen, and is of a slaty grey on the body and head; with cream-coloured legs and dewlap, the latter exceedingly long and pendulous; very short horns directed upwards and outwards; and ears of great proportional magnitude, and so flexible and obedient to the animal's will as to be moved in all directions ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19, - Issue 552, June 16, 1832 • Various
... twisted white hair shine in the sun like the angry silken hairs of a boar at bay. The neck is athletic and recommends itself to the notice of caricaturists by an infinity of wrinkles, of furrows; by a dewlap faded but armed with darts in ...
— A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant • Honore De Balzac
... remarkable. Its home is India and the adjacent regions; where it branches off into almost as many varieties as there are breeds of our own oxen. These varieties have different names; and they differ in size, shape, and other particulars; but the hump and long hanging dewlap ...
— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid


Words linked to "Dewlap" :   cutis, skin, neck, cervix, tegument


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