Shaven
['ʃeɪvn] or ['ʃevən]
Definition
(adj.) having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin .
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Definition
(-) of Shave
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Examples
- He was flaxen-haired and handsome, in a washed-out negative fashion, with frightened blue eyes, and a clean-shaven face, with a weak, sensitive mouth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was instantly opened by a bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step in. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Some were close-shaven, all over, except that a tuft like a paint-brush was left on the end of the tail. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was a dark, sallow, clean-shaven, silent person, but he had polite manners and a pleasant smile. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He snatched off the dark beard which had disguised him and threw it on the ground, disclosing a long, sallow, clean-shaven face below it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- His face was at that time, as it is now, clean shaven. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was a little, white-faced, clean-shaven, grizzly-haired fellow of fifty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Upon inquiring, he found that they took him for a priest, with his dark garb, smooth-shaven face, and serious expression. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The monks were pretty much the only people in those days with time for study, and two of these shaven-headed scientists now had a chance to enter history. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was very like the chap I had seen the night before, the same figure and voice, but he was clean shaven and his hair was lighter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- His beard was shaven on his chin, but was let to grow, of a fine rich brown, on his cheeks and his upper lip. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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