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Composé de semi- et de smile.

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semi-smile
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  1. Demi-sourire, sourire en coin.
    • She curled her pink lips upward in a shy semi-smile. — (Susan M. Kirschbaum, Frills and Chills, The New York Observer, 2004)
    • I saw him glance at his wife, and she gave a semi-smile of approval. — (Mrs. Macquoid, Appletons’ Journal: Volume 12, D. Appleton & Co., page 623, 1874)
    • He stood looking at nothing in particular, with the blushing, awkward air and semi-smile which are common to shy boys when in company, -- very much as if they had come into the world by mistake, and found it in a degree of undress that was quite embarrassing. — (Charles H. Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland, Volume 7, Wildside Press, page 34, 2008)

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