nosewing
nounEtymology From nose + wing.
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The arch of cartilage on either side of the nose.
- 1974, Vladimir Nabokov, Look at the Harlequins!, http://books.google.com/books?id=2EmDMVHZ1oIC&pg=PT232&dq=%22nosewing%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tSbsUO6aEM3kqAG884Fg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBDgK A furrow sloped down from each nosewing, and a jowl pouch on each side of my chin formed in three-quarterface the banal flexure common to old men of all races, classes, and professions.
- Eliza laughed slyly, passing her finger under her wide nosewing.2006, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, p. 313