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archaic smile
–noun Fine Arts.
a conventional representation of the mouth characterized by slightly upturned corners of the lips, found esp. on Greek sculpture produced prior to the 5th century b.c.

[Origin: 1900–05]
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archaic smile  
n.   A representation of the human mouth with slightly upturned corners, characteristic of early Greek sculpture produced before the fifth century B.C.


[After the Archaic Period, early period of ancient Greek sculpture.]

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