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1. Having a flat nose.
1530. Palsgr., 312/2. Flatte nosed, camus.
1575. Fleming, Virgil’s Bucol., x. 9. The litle flat nozde gotes Shall crop and nip the tender twige.
1581. Pettie, Guazzo’s Civ. Conv., I. (1586), 37. If their beloued bee flat nosed, they tearme her amiable: if hauked, they call her Princely: if shee bee browne, they count her manly: if white, heauenly.
1677. Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, II. vii. 200. Let us look upon Men in several Climates, though in the same Continent, we shall see a strange variety among them in Colour, Figure, Stature, Complexion, Humor; and all arising from the difference of the Climate, though the Continent be but one, as to point of Access and mutual Intercourse and possibility of Intermigrations: The Ethiopian black, flat-nosed and crisp-haired; the Moors tawny; the Spaniards swarthy, little, haughty, deliberate; the French spritely, sudden; the Northern people large, fair-complexioned, strong, sinewy, couragious.
1853. Hickie, trans. Aristoph. (1872), II. 648. Prax. The uglier and more flat-nosed women shall sit by the side of the beautiful; and then if any desire her, he shall first lie with the ugly one.
2. of a tool, as flat-nosed graver.
1871. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., XII. 226. If the figures and characters were made with a tool, it must have been a very rude one, since a ‘flat-nosed’ graver would have left a smooth trough, while here it is rough and granular.
