paste-horn

English

Etymology

From the resemblance to the horn in which shoemakers kept their paste.

Noun

paste-horn (plural paste-horns)

  1. (slang, obsolete) A person's nose.

References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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