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glabella

PRONUNCIATION:

(gluh-BEL-uh)

MEANING:

noun: The area between the eyebrows, just above the nose.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin glabellus (hairless), diminutive of glaber (smooth). Earliest documented use: 1823.

USAGE:

“‘Kiss my glabella,’ she said.
‘Sure.’
‘That’s not my glabella, silly, but, mmm, mmm, go ahead. I like that too. The glabella is the spot between my eyebrows.’
‘Not in America it ain’t.’”
Curt Leviant; Zix Zexy Ztories; Texas Tech University Press; 2012.

“My favorite Jake Tapper WTF Face is the one where ... his glabella [forms] a very satisfying omega sign.”
Stephanie Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Lauren Larson; The Realest Face in “Fake News”; GQ (New York); May 2017.

See more usage examples of glabella in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (9 Nov 1934-1996)

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