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 Amazo’nia.Ambassador, 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Amazonian Chin (An).
 
A beardless chin, like that of a woman warrior.   1
       
“When with his Amazonian chin he drove
The bristled lips before him.”
       
Shakespeare: Coriolanus, ii. 2.
 


 Amazo’nia.Ambassador, 

 
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