malar

Etymology

From modern Latin malaris, from Latin mala (“jaw, cheek-bone”).

adj

  1. Pertaining to the cheek.
    Whose? Les yeux morts d'Eurydice, he says, but suspects they beckon, they and that malar elegance. 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

noun

  1. (anatomy) The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.

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