Definitions

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  • adjective Without eyebrows.

Etymologies

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eyebrow +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Who could know that the very fate of a nation rests on a single eyebrowless girl's slim shoulders and the wingtips of a particularly snarky bird.

    Review of the Day: The Best Book of 2006 fusenumber8 2006

  • Who could know that the very fate of a nation rests on a single eyebrowless girl's slim shoulders and the wingtips of a particularly snarky bird.

    Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • Who could know that the very fate of a nation rests on a single eyebrowless girl's slim shoulders and the wingtips of a particularly snarky bird.

    Archive 2006-02-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • With her pale, oval, eyebrowless face set on a swan's neck, her slanted eyes, high forehead, and fair hair skinned up and knotted at the crown, Adele was the image, in repose, of some late medieval princess -- Henry the Fifth's fair Katharine of France.

    Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

  • There came a banging on the kitchen door, but before she could reach it in six steps and three bumps, the door was shoved open, and a big chunk of a red-faced, eyebrowless man took the two steps between door and icebox.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • No one could prove from the bodies of three wounded men, one with three bullet wounds in his abdomen, one with his jaw shot away and his vocal cords exposed, one with his femur smashed to bits by a bullet and his hands and face so badly burned that his face was just an eyelashless, eyebrowless, hairless blister that they were Russians.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • No one could prove from the bodies of three wounded men, one with three bullet wounds in his abdomen, one with his jaw shot away and his vocal cords exposed, one with his femur smashed to bits by a bullet and his hands and face so badly burned that his face was just an eyelashless, eyebrowless, hairless blister that they were Russians.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • "You have your nerve to come to me," he said, as the eyebrowless young man sat himself comfortably in Johnny's favorite leather arm - chair.

    Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress George Randolph Chester 1896

  • The red on our cheeks was getting paler; the powder was becoming paste; the black on the eyebrowless actors began to run down their cheeks; Monsieur d'Espeuilles's wig and mustache were all on one side.

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

  • My heart beat high; for, in those four male personages, although complexionless and eyebrowless, I beheld four subjects of the Family P. Salcy.

    The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

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