beardless
Americanadjective
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without a beard
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too young to grow a beard; immature
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of beardless
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325; see origin at beard, -less
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There was even a crew of beardless Santas on Friday.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
Two blocks away, a beardless man in his 30s named Ahmad Amiri was perched nervously inside a motorcycle repair shop.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021
They were paging through a binder of listings, checking off the day’s sightings, including the northern beardless tyrannulet and greater pewee.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2021
“That was a stare that would stop a clock,” a beardless David Feherty says.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2020
Scheibert, the beardless Prussian, moody, prim, was dressed all in white, white coat, floppy white hat, the inevitable glittering monocle.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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