Notable feature of the Mona Lisa
Publish date: 2024-06-30
| • | To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently. |
| • | To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer. |
| • | To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty. |
| • | To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors. |
| • | To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors. |
| • | To affect in a certain way with a smile. |
| • | The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; -- opposed to frown. |
| • | A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile. |
| • | Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence. |
| • | Gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring. |
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