browed

[ broud ]

/ braʊd /

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adjective

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

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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.
Cara Delevingne Trademarks Her Name|Claire Stern|February 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
He was a dark-browed, good-looking youngster of nineteen, greatly resembling his mother, but with ten times her impetuosity.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
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 specifieddark-browed

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