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corrugare

corrugare [CL] , to wrinkle; b (w. nares, as sign of distaste). ~are, in rugam deducere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 153; nec, quem internodia lunant [v. l. †limant], / angulus incurvi corrugat poplitis arcum Hanv. II 57 p. 260; in senio ‥ contrahuntur nervi, cutis ~atur Bart. Angl. V 1; usus harum rerum [ignis etc.] reddit faciem tornatilem et ~atam Bacon IX 23.  b sordes appositorum mense nares ~ant [cf. Hor. Epist. I 5. 23] J. Godard Ep. 241; s1252 rex ~ans nares et subsannans M. Par. Maj. V 336 (cf. ib. 328); †corrugit Garl. Mor. Scol. 54 gl. (v. crispare 1c).

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