a. Having a cheek or cheeks: in comb., as blub-, cherry-, fair-, red-cheeked, etc.
1552. Huloet, Cheeked great, or hauynge great cheakes, macticus.
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, D ij b. Cherry cheeked, like a shredde of scarlet.
1647. Crashaw, Steps Temple, 80. Of all the faircheek’d flowers.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), I. s.v. Cheek, Full cheeked, or blub cheeked, bucco.
1861. Times, 10 Oct., 10/1. Rosy-cheeked apples.
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, 142. That black-eyed cherry-cheeked sister.
