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A Thousand Notable Things choose

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[UK] T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things 269: Take a Description of an illfavoured Woman, yet exceedingly doted upon by a fond foolish Lover: Her skin and Face pimpled; pale; Yellow; Tanned; Tallow-fac’d; a swoln Juglars; Platter Face; a Thin lean Chitty-face.
at chitty-face, n.
[UK] T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things 269: Take a Description of an illfavoured Woman, yet exceedingly doted upon by a fond foolish Lover: Her skin and Face pimpled; pale; Yellow; Tanned; Tallow-fac’d; a swoln Juglars; [...] Goggle-eyed; Blear-eyed; Squint-eyed.
at goggle-eyed, adj.
[UK] T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things 269: Take a Description of an illfavoured Woman, yet exceedingly doted upon by a fond foolish Lover: Her skin and Face pimpled; pale; Yellow; Tanned; Tallow-fac’d; a swoln Juglars; Platter Face; a Thin lean Chitty-face.
at platter-faced, adj.
[UK] T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things 269: A nasty Ramish filthy Quean, Dishonest obscene, base baggerly.
at rammish (adj.) under ram, n.1
[UK] T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things 269: A Thin lean Chitty-face [...] Sparrow-mouthed [...] Beetle-browed.
at sparrow-mouthed (adj.) under sparrow, n.
[UK] T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things 287: You have done nothing else for many years, but lay your stones in foul places, with your Whores and Courtezans.
at stone, n.1
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