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browed

[ broud ]

adjective

  1. having a brow of a specified kind (usually used in combination):

    a shaggy-browed brute.



-browed

adjective

  1. in combination having a brow or brows as specified

    dark-browed



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Word History and Origins

Origin of browed1

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; brow, -ed 3

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Example Sentences

Other Siberian bird species that typically migrate south but have recently shown up in Europe in growing numbers, like the yellow-browed warbler and Siberian chiffchaff, may also be making their own westward routes, Dufour suspects.

Now, the bushy-browed beauty is planning her next big move: becoming a global brand.

Slyly moving past the bushy eye-browed front clerk, I ran upstairs to my mother.

He was a dark-browed, good-looking youngster of nineteen, greatly resembling his mother, but with ten times her impetuosity.

She was fair as a lily, with bright golden hair, and bore no resemblance to this dark-eyed, black-browed wench.

His manner is somewhat nervous, a look of intense seriousness in his heavy-browed eyes.

She stood thinking, her fine face, so open-browed and purely lined, frowning and distressed.

In swarms they arrived—black-browed, olive-skinned, chattering like apes.

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