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单词 browless
释义 ˈbrowless, a.
[f. brow n.1 5.]
1. Without shame, unabashed. Cf. frontless. Obs.
1615W. Hull Mirr. Maiestie 81 Therefore they despite him with all illusory gestures of browlesse scorners.1679L. Addison Life Mahomet 84 (L.), So browless was this heretick, that he was not ashamed to tell the world, etc.a1821Keats Sonn. Haydon, When men star'd at what was most divine with browless idiotism.
2. Without eyebrows.
1823New Monthly Mag. VIII. 531 A composition which..utterly destroyed the hair, and left him literally browless!1905E. Phillpotts Secret Woman ii. ix. 179 Browless eyes.1906B. von Hutten What became of Pam i. iv, The large..eyes,..so almost browless and lashless.
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