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OP I have seen noses retroussé
Trust the French to pay homage to the architecture of a nose, wwh. We english, on the other hand, have "aquiline" noses, "Roman" noses, "button" noses, "pug" noses, and the hastily cobbled together "turned-up nose", and everywhere we turn our snozzer we encounter "nosey" people with their noses in everyone else's business and "brown nosers" with their heads buried up other people's rear ends. When we drink too much, we get a "snootful". If we think too much of ourselves, we are "snooty" or, worse, "snotty". Indeed, is there any other orifice of the human anatomy more systematically maligned in the english language than the nose on your face? The French, on the other hand, know better. I have read that the French think so much of their noses that the coveted prodigies who concoct their finest perfumes in spy-proof laboratories are called, simply, "Noses". When it comes to noses, wwh, we english haven't got a whiff of sense.
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