Dimples

small natural indentation in the flesh

Dimples are small natural indentations in the flesh on a part of the human body, especially in the cheek or on the chin. In some societies, they are considered an attractive feature.

Quotes

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  • Seek in that cheek for the dimples that hide
    Quite from the sight; then a moment descried,
    Fly from your eye, half confessed, half denied.
  • Then did she lift her hands unto his chin,
    And praised the pretty dimpling of his skin.
  • She smiled, and more of pleasure than disdain
    Was in her dimpled chin and liberal lip.
  • She had the mouth that smiles in repose. The lips met full on the centre of the bow and thinned along to a lifting dimple.
  • ... Adonis smiles as in disdain,
    That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple;
    Love made those hollows; if himself were slain,
    He might be buried in a tomb so simple;
      Foreknowing well, if there he came to lie,
      Why, there Love lived and there he could not die.
  • The dimples in
    Her cheeks and chin
    Are snares which Love hath set,
    And I have fallen in!
    • John Allan Wyeth, "My Sweetheart’s Face", in Harper's Magazine (June 1892)
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