clean-shaven
[kleen-shey-vuh n]
- (of a man) having the beard and mustache shaved off.
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Origin of clean-shaven
First recorded in 1860–65
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Contemporary Examples
Clean-shaven and balding, Saleem is in his forties and walks with a limp.
Patrick Bateman was clean-shaven, and look at how he spent his evenings.
If clean-shaven William is a new man, then his bearded brother Harry is 100% unreconstructed bloke.
“All she noticed was that the clean-shaven man was very tall,” the commission reports.
Sitting across from me was a man dressed all in black, clean-shaven with shoulder-length hair.
Historical Examples
He was a stockily built fellow of thirty with a clean-shaven face.
The UnderdogF. Hopkinson Smith
The man was tall, clean-shaven, quick of step and of glance.
A Breath of Prairie and other storiesWill Lillibridge
He was dark, clean-shaven, and seemed accustomed to command.
Howards EndE. M. Forster
They were men of middle age, heavily built and clean-shaven.
The DestroyerBurton Egbert Stevenson
Taller than any other man present, elegant, blonde, clean-shaven.
Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown PrincessHenry W. Fischer
clean-shaven
- (of men) having the facial hair shaved off
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