backswept
Americanadjective
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slanting backwards
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another word for sweptback
Etymology
Origin of backswept
Example Sentences
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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
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
Trespasser has an axe-like blade on top of its head, Knifehead has a blade-like snout, Mutavore has an aft-curving chin blade and backswept cranial horn, Scunner has paired lateral horns, and so on.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 25, 2013
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