white-browedadj.

Brit.

/ˌwʌɪtˈbraʊd/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)waɪtˈˌbraʊd/

Forms: see white adj. and n. and browed adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., browed adj.

Etymology: < white adj. + browed adj.

Having a white brow or brows (in various senses); spec. (of a person or bird) having white eyebrows.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > eyebrow > [adjective]

beetle-browed1362

bresedc1400

well-browed1483

supercilious1656

white-browed1740

plucked1762

supraciliary1821

gathered1823

palpebrous1846

palpebral1854

surciliary1874

thatched1889

bushy-browed1912

unplucked1959

monobrowed1973

the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having particular colour eyes > having colour round eyes

white-eyed1607

red-eyed1671

white-browed1740

supercilious1782

superciliary1819

1740 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 520/2 Beneath the white-brow'd cliff protected sings, Or skims the azure plain with painted wings!

1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. i. 31 Turdus Sibiricus... White-browed Thr[ush]... Inhabits the woods of the northern parts of Russia.

1799 S. W. Morton Virtues of Society 12 Here white-brow'd Albion's blooming offspring shine.

1831 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Boston) Feb. 745 The red men who gave their hearts to these white-browed strangers..anticipated a friendship lasting as long as the beams of their brilliant sun.

1864 G. Barmby Return of Swallow 191 The morn was white-browed, softly fair, With dewy pearls amid her hair.

1918 A. Hayes Simon de Montfort ii. v. 68 Even so last month those white-browed hills which loom Dim to the South, the beech-clad Chilterns, quaked with some strange seizure.

1929 K. A. Porter West Indian Island in D. H. Unrue Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry (1996) 87 Fearing shadows and strange sounds and the white browed cliff and the darkness Which never ends.

1953 A. Russell Murray Walkabout 103 Hardly had we settled down in camp when we had a visit from a company of gambolling white-browed babblers.

1977 Ecos 11 21/1 One particular white-browed scrub wren was first banded on a forestry access road 14 years ago.

2005 Trav. Afr. Autumn 41/1 If rivals start to copy the sweet melody of the white-browed robin chat, he literally changes his tune, improvising a new one with which to wow the neighbourhood females.

Compounds

white-browed partridge n. rare (a) the buffy-crowned tree-quail of Central America, Dendrortyx leucophrys (family Odontophoridae), which has a whitish forehead and throat; (b) the collared hill-partridge of south-eastern China, Arborophila gingica, the male of which has a distinctive white forehead.

ΚΠ

1911 Proc. Zool. Soc. No. 3. 853 Offered Bee to Central American White-browed Partridge. He took it without hesitation, but after a peck or two left it and went away.

2002 S. Madge & P. McGowan Pheasants, Partridges & Grouse Index 488/2 White-browed Partridge, see Collared Hill-partridge.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	white-browed
释义	white-browedadj. Brit. /ˌwʌɪtˈbraʊd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˈˌbraʊd/ Forms: see white adj. and n. and browed adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., browed adj. Etymology: < white adj. + browed adj. Having a white brow or brows (in various senses); spec. (of a person or bird) having white eyebrows. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > eyebrow > [adjective] beetle-browed1362 bresedc1400 well-browed1483 supercilious1656 white-browed1740 plucked1762 supraciliary1821 gathered1823 palpebrous1846 palpebral1854 surciliary1874 thatched1889 bushy-browed1912 unplucked1959 monobrowed1973 the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having particular colour eyes > having colour round eyes white-eyed1607 red-eyed1671 white-browed1740 supercilious1782 superciliary1819 1740 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 520/2 Beneath the white-brow'd cliff protected sings, Or skims the azure plain with painted wings! 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. i. 31 Turdus Sibiricus... White-browed Thr[ush]... Inhabits the woods of the northern parts of Russia. 1799 S. W. Morton Virtues of Society 12 Here white-brow'd Albion's blooming offspring shine. 1831 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Boston) Feb. 745 The red men who gave their hearts to these white-browed strangers..anticipated a friendship lasting as long as the beams of their brilliant sun. 1864 G. Barmby Return of Swallow 191 The morn was white-browed, softly fair, With dewy pearls amid her hair. 1918 A. Hayes Simon de Montfort ii. v. 68 Even so last month those white-browed hills which loom Dim to the South, the beech-clad Chilterns, quaked with some strange seizure. 1929 K. A. Porter West Indian Island in D. H. Unrue Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry (1996) 87 Fearing shadows and strange sounds and the white browed cliff and the darkness Which never ends. 1953 A. Russell Murray Walkabout 103 Hardly had we settled down in camp when we had a visit from a company of gambolling white-browed babblers. 1977 Ecos 11 21/1 One particular white-browed scrub wren was first banded on a forestry access road 14 years ago. 2005 Trav. Afr. Autumn 41/1 If rivals start to copy the sweet melody of the white-browed robin chat, he literally changes his tune, improvising a new one with which to wow the neighbourhood females. Compounds white-browed partridge n. rare (a) the buffy-crowned tree-quail of Central America, Dendrortyx leucophrys (family Odontophoridae), which has a whitish forehead and throat; (b) the collared hill-partridge of south-eastern China, Arborophila gingica, the male of which has a distinctive white forehead. ΚΠ 1911 Proc. Zool. Soc. No. 3. 853 Offered Bee to Central American White-browed Partridge. He took it without hesitation, but after a peck or two left it and went away. 2002 S. Madge & P. McGowan Pheasants, Partridges & Grouse Index 488/2 White-browed Partridge, see Collared Hill-partridge. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1740
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