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English
Adjective
bell-mouthed (not comparable)
- Expanding at the mouth or opening; flared.
- a bell-mouthed gun
1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):His bell-mouth'd goblet makes me feel quite Danish
Or Dutch with thirst
1829, John Francis Davis, The Fortunate Union, page 143:He perceived it to be a drawing, by some first-rate artist, of the bell-mouthed flower Calycanthus, extremely rich and elaborate, and truly worthy of its imperial destination.
1895, Emerson Hough, The Singing Mouse Stories, page 175:I could hear again the rifle's thin report, could note the whisper of the secret-loving paddle, the slipping of the snow-shoe on the snow, the clatter of the hoofs of horses, the baying of the bell-mouthed hounds.
1986, Department of the Army, Operrator's Organizational, Direct Support and General Support Maintenance Manual For Truck, Firefightng, Dry Chemical AFFF, page 2450:Brake linings on a bell-mouthed brake drum will make contact only on the inner surface of the drum.
2009, Louis Begley, Anka Muhlstein, Venice for Lovers:On a table stood a full carafe — one of those bell-mouthed Italian carafes, flanked by a black bottle.