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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of barber.

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Examples

  • He was short, barely five and a half feet, and slightly built, with a haphazardly barbered mop of curly dark hair, a disheveled appearance, and black-rimmed glasses too large for his face.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • He was short, barely five and a half feet, and slightly built, with a haphazardly barbered mop of curly dark hair, a disheveled appearance, and black-rimmed glasses too large for his face.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • He was short, barely five and a half feet, and slightly built, with a haphazardly barbered mop of curly dark hair, a disheveled appearance, and black-rimmed glasses too large for his face.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • He was short, barely five and a half feet, and slightly built, with a haphazardly barbered mop of curly dark hair, a disheveled appearance, and black-rimmed glasses too large for his face.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • He was short, barely five and a half feet, and slightly built, with a haphazardly barbered mop of curly dark hair, a disheveled appearance, and black-rimmed glasses too large for his face.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • He was short, barely five and a half feet, and slightly built, with a haphazardly barbered mop of curly dark hair, a disheveled appearance, and black-rimmed glasses too large for his face.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • They had the kind of streaky brown hair that suggests towheaded toddlers; it was well barbered, thick and wavy.

    Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010

  • If he wasn't going to be just a well-barbered werewolf in a tux or some other popular monster, prettied up, then he needed at least some of the qualities of his great popular prototype, Count Dracula.

    Suzy McKee Charnas - Guest Post Victoria Janssen 2010

  • Behind Arnold Farthing he saw another man: sleek, immaculate, with one of those shining well-barbered chins you usually associate with wealth in the City.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • But homes like the Bigelows ', whose owners might be just as rich, were older and smaller, their landscaping relaxed, not stiff and harshly barbered.

    ’ 2010

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