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In ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] wrote of the "[[The Wife of Bath's Tale|gap-toothed wife of Bath]]".<ref name="gap">{{cite news |author=Rachel Dodes |title=We Don't Mind the Gap: The Fashionable Flash a New Smile |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703720004575478213601248720?mod=WSJ_NewYork_NewsReel |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=September 8, 2010 |access-date=2010-09-10 }}</ref> As early as this time period, the gap between the front teeth, especially in women, was associated with lustful characteristics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mcgilltribune.com/a-e/gap-toothed-women04042018/|title=Gap-Toothed Women|last=Garmaise|first=Ariella|date=2018-04-04|website=The McGill Tribune|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-09}}</ref> Thus, the implication in describing "the gap-toothed wife of Bath" is that she is a middle-aged woman with insatiable lust.<ref name=":0" />
 
In [[Ghana]], [[Namibia]], [[Nigeria]] as well as throughout many communities in Kenya and Tanzania, diastemata are regarded as being attractive and a sign of fertility, and some people have even had them created through [[cosmetic dentistry]].<ref name="bite">{{cite web|url=http://bitemagazine.com.au/news_blog/?p=190|title=Midline diastemata in fashion|date=October 14, 2010|publisher=Bite magazine website|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420151357/http://bitemagazine.com.au/news_blog/?p=190|archive-date=April 20, 2012|access-date=September 10, 2010}}</ref><ref name="WebMD">{{cite web |last1=Keller |first1=Adrienne |title=6 Fun Facts AboutAb out Gaps Between Teeth |url=https://www.webmd.com/connect-to-care/teeth-straightening/fun-facts-about-gaps-between-teeth |website=WebMD}}</ref> In France, they are called "dents du bonheur" ("lucky/happiness teeth").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.us/newyork/national/article/714520--the-year-of-the-gap-tooth-trend|last=McGuiness|first=Romina|title=The year of the gap-tooth trend|work=Metro|date=December 8, 2010|access-date=April 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308144534/http://www.metro.us/newyork/national/article/714520--the-year-of-the-gap-tooth-trend|archive-date=March 8, 2012}}</ref> This expression originated in Napoleon's time: when the Napoleonic army recruited, it was imperative that soldiers had incisors in perfect condition because they had to open the paper cartridges (containing powder and ball) with their teeth when loading their muskets. All those who had teeth apart were then classified as unfit to fight. Some men broke their own teeth to avoid going to war.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} [[Les Blank]]'s ''Gap-Toothed Women'' (1987) is a 30-minute documentary film about diastematic women.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/16/movies/film-gap-toothed-women-miss-or-myth.html|title=Film: 'Gap-Toothed Women,' 'Miss . . . or Myth?'|last=Canby|first=Vincent|date=1987-09-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-09-09|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
 
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