smooth-shaven

[ smooth-shey-vuhn ]

adjective

1. having the beard and mustache shaved off; clean-shaven.

Word History and Origins

Origin of smooth-shaven¹

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

He was a man a little under middle age, of medium height and thick-set, with black hair and a pale, smooth-shaven face.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a man with a fine, smooth shaven face of the kind that might belong equally well to either a very fine actor or a judge.

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He is a smug, self-satisfied looking man of about thirty-five, smooth-shaven, except for small side-whiskers.

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It was a man about fifty years of age, tall, smooth-shaven, and wearing clothes of a foreign cut.

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Instead of being smooth shaven, he wore a very long mustache which dropped its ends below his chin.

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