clean-shaven

[ kleen-shey-vuhn ]
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adjective
  1. (of a man) having the beard and mustache shaved off.

Origin of clean-shaven

1
First recorded in 1860–65

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How to use clean-shaven in a sentence

  • He looks about thirty-five, has a clean-shaven intelligent face, and is dressed in a dark tweed suit.

    First Plays | A. A. Milne
  • Puffin wore his hair very long indeed, while the whole of his face was clean shaven.

  • They looked, with their clean-shaven faces, absurdly young after the bearded Belgian soldiers.

    The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • It may be said that an earnest Barrister should be clean shaven, but the remark would only emanate from those who are bachelors.

  • He was clean-shaven save for an absurd little mustache so fair as to be almost indistinguishable.

    A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith Nicholson

British Dictionary definitions for clean-shaven

clean-shaven

adjective
  1. (of men) having the facial hair shaved off

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