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SHAVEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin
Synonyms:
shaved; shaven
Classified under:
Similar:
beardless; whiskerless (having no beard)
clean-shaven; smooth-shaven; well-shaven (closely shaved recently)
Antonym:
unshaven (not shaved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb shave
Context examples:
To my childish imagination it was a personal affair, and I for ever saw my father and this clean-shaven, thin-lipped man swaying and reeling in a deadly, year-long grapple.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was instantly opened by a bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step in.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The pawner was a large, clean-shaven man of clerical appearance.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a little, white-faced, clean-shaven, grizzly-haired fellow of fifty.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a dapper, brisk man, very richly clad, with a round, clean-shaven face, and very bright black eyes, which danced and sparkled with excitement.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The rules of the service insured that every face should be clean-shaven, every head powdered, and every neck covered by the little queue of natural hair tied with a black silk ribbon.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The face, clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large, resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big, bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Smooth-shaven, every line was distinct, and it was cut as clear and sharp as a cameo; while sea and sun had tanned the naturally fair skin to a dark bronze which bespoke struggle and battle and added both to his savagery and his beauty.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He was very like the chap I had seen the night before, the same figure and voice, but he was clean shaven and his hair was lighter.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
