'rictus' in The Possibility of an Island | Bookmarker

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(noun) the gape of a bird's mouth / (noun) the mouth orifice / (noun) a gaping grin or grimace

his eyes frozen in a rictus of horror

—p.268 by Michel Houellebecq

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