Amazonian Chin (An).

A beardless chin, like that of a woman warrior.

“When with his Amazonian chin he drove

The bristled lips before him.”


Shakespeare: Coriolanus, ii. 2.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Amaranth
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Amasis (Ring of)
Amati
Amaurot (Greek, the shadowy or unknown place)
Amaurote
Amazement
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Amazon
Amazonia
Amazonian Chin (An)
Ambassador
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Ambes-as
Ambi-dexter
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Ambree (Mary)
Ambrose (St.)
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