Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a smooth or shaven chin; beardless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a smooth chin; beardless.
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Examples
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Indians, but kindly, just, and generous to all who will deal faithfully with them; and many a smooth-chinned Carib and Ature,
Westward Ho! 2007
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In some cases among men the upper lip and the chin is thickly covered with hair, and in other cases these parts are smooth and the cheeks are hairy; and, by the way, smooth-chinned men are less inclined than bearded men to baldness.
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He was in his mid-forties, tall and low-gee slim, smooth-chinned, bearing much of Tyr-a's blond hand - someness but none of her verve and fi-equent merriment.
Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991
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Kanaka easily could be mistaken for a woman, as he also, like Sidney, was slender and smooth-chinned.
The Green Mummy Fergus Hume 1895
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Its smooth-chinned hero, beautiful as a girl, soft as a girl, sentimental as a girl, with nothing of the man about him -- except that 'Nature, as she wrought him, fell adoting,' -- threads a labyrinth of suggestive adventures, in each of which he is more the patient than the agent of desire.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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The third inhabitant of the office was a ruddy, smooth-chinned youth of about fourteen, who had left home seven months before, in the hope of gratifying a desire to lead a wild life, which he had entertained ever since he read "Jack the Giant Killer," and found himself most unexpectedly fastened, during the greater part of each day, to a stool.
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The third inhabitant of the office was a ruddy, smooth-chinned youth of about fourteen, who had left home seven months before, in the hope of gratifying a desire to lead a wild life, which he had entertained ever since he read "Jack the Giant Killer," and found himself most unexpectedly fastened, during the greater part of each day, to a stool.
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Have you not told me that you were a smooth-chinned boy, and not grown to near your present height when you left home?
The Hot Swamp 1859
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So they have wandered, and so they will wander still, the lords of the forest and its beasts; terrible to all hostile Indians, but kindly, just, and generous to all who will deal faithfully with them; and many a smooth-chinned Carib and
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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And here I sit in the same rooms {210a} in which I sat as a smooth-chinned Freshman twenty years ago.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846
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