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buccal

(adj): of or relating to or toward the cheek
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about 1 year ago knitandpurl said:

"This was a normal rite of passage then: from being rickety-gnashered to fully porcelained in one leap, to all that buccal sliding and clacking, to social embarrassment and the foaming glass on the bedside table."
From "The Past Conditional" by Julian Barnes
The New Yorker, Dec. 25, 2006 and Jan. 1, 2007, p 56

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