browed

[ broud ]

adjective

having a brow of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a shaggy-browed brute.

Origin of browed

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at brow, -ed³

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How to use browed in a sentence

Now, the bushy-browed beauty is planning her next big move: becoming a global brand.
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Slyly moving past the bushy eye-browed front clerk, I ran upstairs to my mother.
For the Love of Pâté | Molly Hannon | January 5, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
He was a dark-browed, good-looking youngster of nineteen, greatly resembling his mother, but with ten times her impetuosity.
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She was fair as a lily, with bright golden hair, and bore no resemblance to this dark-eyed, black-browed wench.
The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie
His manner is somewhat nervous, a look of intense seriousness in his heavy-browed eyes.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman

She stood thinking, her fine face, so open-browed and purely lined, frowning and distressed.
Marriage la mode | Mrs. Humphry Ward
In swarms they arrived—black-browed, olive-skinned, chattering like apes.
A German Pompadour | Marie Hay

British Dictionary definitions for -browed

-browed

adjective

(in combination) having a brow or brows as specified: dark-browed

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