The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheek \Cheek\ (ch[=e]k), n. [OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. ce[`a]ce, ce[`o]ce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw.]
The side of the face below the eye.
The cheek bone. [Obs.]
--Caucer.pl. (Mech.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
pl. The branches of a bridle bit.
--Knight.(Founding) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.
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Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang]
Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef.
Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone.
Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate.
Cheek pouch (Zo["o]l.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.
Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block.
Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest.
Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth.
Butment cheek. See under Butment.
Jowl \Jowl\ (joul or j[=o]l), n. [For older chole, chaul, AS. ceaft jaw. Cf. Chaps.] The cheek; the jaw. [Written also jole, choule, chowle, and geoule.]
Cheek by jowl, with the cheeks close together; side by
side; in close proximity. ``I will go with thee cheek by
jole.''
--Shak. `` Sits cheek by jowl.''
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In very close physical proximity, crowded together. 2 (context by extension English) In very close or intimate association. alt. 1 In very close physical proximity, crowded together. 2 (context by extension English) In very close or intimate association.
WordNet
adv. in close proximity; "the houses were jumbled together cheek by jowl"
Wikipedia
Cheek by Jowl is an international theatre company founded in the United Kingdom by director Declan Donnellan and designer Nick Ormerod in 1981. Donnellan and Ormerod are Cheek by Jowl’s artistic directors and together have directed and designed all but two of Cheek by Jowl’s productions. Cheek by Jowl's current productions are the French language Ubu Roi, by Alfred Jarry and the Russian language production of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Cheek by Jowl is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
The company has performed in the UK since 1981 and internationally since 1984, when its productions of Vanity_Fair_(novel) and Pericles were invited to the Almagro, Valladolid, and Jerusalem festivals. As of 2015, Cheek by Jowl has toured to over 390 cities in over 50 countries, including Peter Brook's Bouffes du Nord in Paris, the Chekhov International Festival in Moscow and New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music. Cheek by Jowl is an Associate Company of the Barbican Centre, London.
The core of Cheek by Jowl's work has always been Shakespeare. By the time of their production of Troilus & Cressida in 2008, Cheek by Jowl had produced thirteen of Shakespeare's plays. With their 1986 production of Twelfth Night, Cheek by Jowl were the first to bring a Shakespearean play to The Swan. The company has also consistently produced other classical works of European drama, both in translation and in their original language. Cheek by Jowl have given the British premiere of 10 works of European classics, including Le Cid, by Jean Racine and Andromaque, by Pierre Corneille. In 1989, Cheek by Jowl also produced Donnellan’s own play Lady Betty.
Cheek by Jowl is notable for producing work in English, French and Russian. In 1999, the Russian Chekhov International Theatre Festival commissioned Donnellan and Ormerod to form their own company of Russian actors in Moscow, this sister company performs in Russia and internationally. Cheek by Jowl’s latest Russian production Measure for Measure is the company’s first co-production with Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre.
In 2007, Paris based theatre director Peter Brook invited Donnellan and Ormerod to form a company of French actors; together with Paris’ Bouffes du Nord theatre, Cheek by Jowl co-produced Andromaque, which toured throughout Europe in 2008 and 2009. In 2012, using this same company of French actors Cheek by Jowl went on to produce Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi.
Usage examples of "cheek by jowl".
The houses had been laid cheek by jowl in hapless confusion, the tunnels between - the terms streets flattered them - so narrow, and so thick with citizens, that wherever the eye went it found faces and facades ranging from the primitive to the baroque.
Edinburgh is a stone city, but with so many buildings crammed cheek by jowl, all equipped with multiple hearths and chimneys, fire must be still a frequent occurrence.
Nine months of inactivity, living cheek by jowl like a dozen sardines inside an aluminum can.
Besseta might read yew sticks, but simple scrying paled in comparison to the practices of the wild gypsies who wandered the Highlands, selling spells and enchantments cheek by jowl with their more-ordinary wares.
It was a jumble of a town, with shops and houses and inns cheek by jowl with taverns and stables, all of stone and roofed with reddish tiles.
Drab wooden houses stood cheek by jowl, with only narrow alleys between and whitewash - where anyone had bothered to whitewash the weathered boards - faded as if it had not been freshened in years.
Drab wooden houses stood cheek by jowl, with only narrow alleys between and whitewash -- where anyone had bothered to whitewash the weathered boards -- faded as if it had not been freshened in years.