backswept

American  

[bak-swept] / ˈbækˌswɛpt /

adjective

1. slanting backward or away from the front.

2. Aeronautics. sweptback.

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backswept British  

/ ˈbækˌswɛpt /

adjective

1. slanting backwards

2. another word for sweptback

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Etymology

Origin of backswept

First recorded in 1915–20; back ² + swept

Example Sentences

Some images show her playing boss, her hair backswept, wearing items including a black leather trench coat and a scoop neck midi dress.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024

Maybe it was fate: with his rough-hewn features and leonine fall of backswept hair, Gold’s profile bears an uncanny resemblance to the man, Benjamin Franklin, depicted on the medal itself.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 24, 2018

The flowery plain was scattered with caribou antlers: the delicate backswept branching antlers of female caribou, the sturdier antlers of male caribou, sometimes with mosses growing on the older ones.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2015

An omnivorous or herbivorous lifestyle is also in line with the widened, backswept pubic bones of Balaur: these imply larger guts and a broader, heavier body not especially suited for speedy, predatory behaviour.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2015

His long, backswept hair, dyed black since the age of 16, frames a face that has been described both as “angelic” and “hideous to the eye,” the latter by Cave himself, in song.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2014