unwhiskered

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ whiskered

Adjective[edit]

unwhiskered (not comparable)

  1. Without whiskers.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd[1], London: Constable & Co.:
      [] 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, chapter 2, in Howard Goldblatt, transl., Sandalwood Death[2], University of Oklahoma Press:
      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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