laugh line
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3.5
- noun
- /læf laɪn/
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líneas de risa
- Laugh lines crinkled around her eyes, and her lips—unpainted and untouched—were a faint rose.
- laugh lines around his eyes
- laugh lines at the corners
- deep laugh lines
Eyes, forehead, crow's feet, laugh lines, and it can start working in seconds.
- Eyes, forehead, crow's feet, laugh lines, and it can start working in seconds.
- I have very pronounced laugh lines and just outside, outside the the bone.
- And then I always press into my laugh lines and into my forehead and into the lines under my eye.
- All you do is well, what I do is after I prime my face, I use this filler like right on my laugh lines.
Examples
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I did get the laugh lines and the under eye creases as normal.
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And what I do is I place it here on my laugh lines and then any excess I bring here.
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As you guys can see here, if I smile, you will see my laugh lines coming through.
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I have very pronounced laugh lines and just outside, outside the the bone.
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And then I always press into my laugh lines and into my forehead and into the lines under my eye.
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When he came up over her face again, his eyes were open, and a faint smile brought the laugh lines around his eyes and mouth to life.
Fiction book (1991) -
His face was well-chiseled and strong, but there were laugh lines around his eyes and mouth that suggested he didn't take himself too seriously.
Fiction book (1992) -
A smile tugged at the corners of his mouth, and laugh lines wreathed his narrow face.
Fiction book (1991) -
He was a thin, pleasant-faced man of about forty-five, with laugh lines crinkling the corners of his eyes.
Fiction book (1997) -
When he smiled, the laugh lines around his eyes became more pronounced.
Synonyms
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5.1
Wrinkles at the outer corners of the eyes that appear from smiling or getting older
A small line at the outer corner of the eye that often appears with age or when you smile
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'the part of a joke that provokes laughter' can be partly derived as 'a line that makes people laugh' if the learner treats 'line' as a spoken or written sentence, so there is some compositional logic. However, 'line' also commonly means a crease (and 'laugh lines' = wrinkles), creating ambiguity; this mixed predictability means a B1 learner who only knows the constituent lemmas may not reliably infer the intended punchline sense.
Etymology
Laugh line is the name for the small wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye that comes from smiling and laughing. The words laugh and line create the picture of a line made by laughing, so the phrase now means that wrinkle and often shows a happy life.