单词 | eyebrowed |
释义 | eyebrowedadj. Having eyebrows, esp. (with modifying word) of a specified kind. Also: embellished with something in a manner suggestive of an eyebrow, esp. in regard to position. ΚΠ 1755 Public Advertiser 12 Sept. A dark countenanced Man with a black red beard..big mouthed, thick lipped, and black heavy eye-browed. 1809 M. Berry Jrnl. 31 May in ‘L. Melville’ Berry Papers (1914) vi. 291 Such an over-dressed, bare-bosomed, painted eye-browed figure one never saw! 1831 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IX. 21 Eyebrowed Alligator. 1833 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 314 Steep scars, fringed and eye-browed with wild natural wood. 1879 A. Cambridge In Two Years' Time II. iii. 52 Long, low, ivied walls (set with heavy square windows, eyebrowed with stone labels). 1902 Y. Noguchi Amer. Diary Japanese Girl 17 The snowy-eyebrowed monk..begged me not to forget my family's church while I am in America. 1921 M. C. Davies Husband Test ii. 21 He had been sitting at the feet of two bobbed and eyebrowed girls with lovely shoulders and ankles. 1958 Interiors Apr. 93/1 The boomerang-shaped skyscraper, eyebrowed with balconies in the best tropical hotel tradition. 2000 J. Levine Coen Brothers ii. 23 They chose Dan Hedaya, a bushy-eyebrowed, restless-jawed actor with an intense stare. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1755 |
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