Camuse

/kəˈmjuːs/ adjective

Definition

Flat-nosed or having a snub nose; a dialectal or archaic term describing facial features.

Etymology

From dialectal or obsolete English, possibly related to Norman French cam- (bent or crooked) plus -use. This rare word survives mainly in historical texts and dialectal regions.

Kelly Says

Camuse is one of those old insult-words that Renaissance writers used to describe people they didn't like—if you were camuse, you had a short, flat nose—and the word itself is almost extinct because polite society stopped describing people's noses in that rude way.

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