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Name Bevel
Gender Masculine
Usage Literature
Pronounced Pron. BEV-əl
Other Forms FormsBevill
Edit Status Statusnot set

Meaning & History

A word meaning “a slope from the horizontal or vertical in carpentry and stonework; a sloping surface or edge,” coming from the French for “to gape.” Flannery O'Connor used it for two characters in her 1955 short story "The River."
Added 2/25/2015 by ALOF10