Meaning of orca | Babel Free

Definitions

cheek

archaic

Examples

“„Hej, Iluskám! hogyne volnék én halovány, / Mikor szép orcádat utószor látom tán…””

“Oh, Nelly love! How could I help but look white, / When your lovely face soon will be torn from my sight…”

“1872, Mór Jókai, Az arany ember (Timar’s Two Worlds), part 1, chapter 2, translated by Mrs. Hegan Kennard”

The steersman is a six-foot weather-beaten sailor with a very red face, whose color on both cheeks comes from a network of veins with which the white of the eye is also transfused.

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