Brewer's: 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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