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unwhiskered

unwhiskered

English

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unwhiskered (not comparable)

  1. Without whiskers.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1,
      [] he was fifty or thereabouts, a little inclined to corpulence, a prepossessing face, unwhiskered, and of an agreeable color—a rather full face, humanely intelligent in expression.
    • 2013, Mo Yan, Sandalwood Death, translated by Howard Goldblatt, University of Oklahoma Press, Chapter Two,
      The four bearers, all unwhiskered eunuchs, stood in front of the chairs, their hands tucked into their sleeves, looks of disdain on their faces.

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