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blemish
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blem·ish (blmsh)
n.
A small circumscribed alteration of the skin considered to be unesthetic but insignificant.
blemish
Etymology: OFr, bleme, to deface
a skin stain, alteration, defect, or flaw.
blemish
Dermatology A cosmetic skin defect–eg, birthmarks and lesions caused by aging or exposure to the sun Examples Port-wine stains, scars, acne scars, birth-related stretch marks Management Green-light lasering. See Facial resurfacing.


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From among any number of passages, Beecher himself selects the following, sententious conclusion as illustrative of the Overburian style of charactery: "to be brief with him, he is his own strength's enfeebler, his beauty's blemisher, his wit's blunder, his memory's decayer, and his appetite's abater--a toyish tobacconist" (49).
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