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Gravity's autograph on your jawline, arriving fashionably late.

means The loose, fleshy part of the lower cheek or jaw, especially skin that sags beneath the chin.

from From Old English 'ceole' or 'ceafl,' meaning throat or jaw, tangled up through Middle English spellings like 'chول' and 'jolle.' The word has old cousins pointing to the throat and gullet generally — the same deep root family that gives us words for the neck and gorge. By the time it settled as 'jowl,' it had narrowed to the hanging flesh of cheek and chin, the part gravity never lets you forget.

origin
old english ceafl meant jaw itself
biology
skin outpaces the shrinking fat and muscle beneath
animal kingdom
bulldogs and turkeys wear theirs with pride
idiom
cheek by jowl means pressed very close together
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