1894 Brewer’s / A / Amazonian Chin (An)
A beardless chin, like that of a woman warrior.
“When with his Amazonian chin he drove
The bristled lips before him.”
Shakespeare: Coriolanus, ii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.