ETYMOLOGY
from Latin bucculentus, from bucca (cheek)
EXAMPLE
“… The Royal Game of Goose or the Yorkshire Tragedy, which form the common ornaments of our cottages, are superseded in theirs by some marvellous legend redolent of beatitude; and instead of the Amazonian Trull, or the weather-beaten Admiral which frowns from the bowsprit of a British man-of-war, they carve on their prows the fair image of some bucculent Cherub, or some semi-anatomized Saint …”
From: The British Critic
Volume XIX. January-June, 1823
‘Blunt’s Vestiges of Ancient Manners in Italy’
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