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derrieres

noun

variants or derrières

plural of derriere

as in cheeks

the part of the body upon which someone sits wore a jacket that reached just below the derriere

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Noun

Gold eyeshadow wrapped around the 29-year-old TV personality’s eyes, paired with long swooping lashes placed on the outer corners of her top lids and bright pink blush placed high on her cheeks.

— Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
From there, people may develop white spots on the insides of the cheeks near the molars and a blotchy rash of flat, red spots.

— Aria Bendix, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of cheeks

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Zellers poured the foundation, and Morrison hired fellow ski bums to do the framing, masonry, and tiling.

— Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Within the often zany and slapstick realm of Bob’s Burgers, Tina still manages to steal the show with her singular voice, romantic fantasies, and obsessions with unicorns and boy bums.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of bums

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Democrats, who will control as many as 56 seats in the new Congress, will be on defense in battlegrounds such as Georgia, Ohio, and Arizona.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 11 Nov. 2026
The greatest feature, though, may well be the wall-sized sliding-glass door that opens to a private balcony or patio outfitted with a table and seats, plus a hanging, swinging basket chair.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of seats

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At one of the calf ranches, in San Bernardino County, Robert Drummond, a member of DxE’s Los Angeles chapter, filmed handlers who appear to be whipping frightened calves and pulling them by their tails.

— Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 11 Nov. 2026
After just a few generations, the foxes began to look and act more domesticated, with floppy ears, curly tails and an eagerness for human attention and love.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of tails

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Yellow-rumps, as birders call them, have been seen migrating through northern Illinois even in April and late March.

— Sheryl DeVore, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
The women stood on the doorsteps with their rumps to the crowd, skirts lifted to flash tattered green knickers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026

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