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port-wine

1700, from port (n.4) + wine (n.).

Usage examples of "port-wine".

Shadow sat in a chilly office, facing a short man with a port-wine birthmark on his forehead.

And on the side of one shoulder, a heart-shaped port-wine mark, tiny one.

But the port-wine mark on her bare right shoulder told me it was Darla.

Instantly to Junior's memory came the eye floating in the port-wine stain, the hard gray iris like a nail in the bloody palm of a crucified man.

She was concerned about a purple splotch on my cheek, thinking it was a port-wine stain.

A splash of rose seeped from under his shirt collar and climbed to his earlobes, vivid as a port-wine stain.

A thin waitress with a port-wine stain on her left cheek filled my cup with industrial-strength liquid caffeine, and I filled my mind with a tempest of questions.