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high-browed, a.|ˈhaɪbraʊd|
[f. high a. + brow n.1 + -ed2.]
1. Having a lofty forehead.
1848Geo. Eliot Let. 23 Nov. (1954) I. 273 We have brought you [sc. Mother Nature] many gentle maidens and high-browed, brave men. 1875Brit. Q. Rev. Apr. 500 One can conjure up a vision of them: the one fair, pale, high-browed. 1891Flügel Eng.-German Dict.
2. = highbrow a. orig. U.S.
1906‘O. Henry’ in Davis & Morris Caliph of Bagdad (1931) xiv. 238 That, in addition to the $150 that I screwed out of the high-browed and esteemed B. Merwin during your absence. 1908R. W. Chambers Firing Line ix, You were very much amused, I suppose—to see me sitting bras-dessus-bras-dessous with the high-browed and precious. 1909H. G. Wells Ann Veronica vii. 121 Their very furniture had mysteriously a high-browed quality. Ibid. viii. 144 Goopes, she was sure, was always high-browed and slow and Socratic. 1916― Mr. Britling ii. iv. §10, I was too high-browed about this war business. 1923A. Bennett Things that have interested Me II. 207 If artistic, earnest, and high-browed women only knew how to dress! 1927Daily Express 3 May 3/7 Meeting a highbrowed friend. |