cheek-by-jowl
advDefinitions
Alternative form of cheek by jowl.
- El-Amarna's crowded houses were separated not by wide streets, but by narrow, winding alleyways through piles of domestic garbage, in urban communities where everyone lived cheek-by-jowl.
- Obscure manuscripts and well-known texts reside cheek-by-jowl; so too, polished literary works and oral narratives.
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