nosethirl

English

Alternative forms

  • nosethril [16th-17th c.]

Etymology

From nose +‎ thirl. Compare nostril.

Noun

nosethirl (plural nosethirls)

  1. (now Britain regional, archaic) A nostril.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:
      proud Encelade, whose wide nosethrils burnd / With breathed flames, like to a furnace red [...].

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