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- noun The
line of thebrow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because it turns out that if your facial cleanser has clay in it, and you get some on your hair, like around the browline which is damn hard to avoid, you turn into clay-tablet Enkidu, and everything is all stiff and grey and a little too homoerotic to ignore.
Quotidian Blather yuki_onna 2009
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He grinned down at me, pushing my hair back from my face, running his fingertips along my browline.
And One Last Thing… Molly Harper 2010
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He grinned down at me, pushing my hair back from my face, running his fingertips along my browline.
And One Last Thing… Molly Harper 2010
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Of course, their definition or, most irritating, the definitition in most portraiture books of what is the browline is so vague and their cyclopic fiddling with the thumb on the brush gives such imprecise measurements that you can fit just about anything to their preconceptions.
Pyle on Light and Shadow James Gurney 2009
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This left an indentation above his browline, which was emphasised by an artificial nasal bridge, probably of clay or plaster, built up on to his forehead.
The Mayans Suffered for Their Beauty Jan 2009
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Possibly, Underwood has had a chin implant IRL, but her mouth, nose, and browline look pretty much the same as the old picture—and none of them resemble the Allure cover photo.
Impossibly Beautiful 2008
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Possibly, Underwood has had a chin implant IRL, but her mouth, nose, and browline look pretty much the same as the old picture—and none of them resemble the Allure cover photo.
Impossibly Beautiful 2008
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Silver-blond hair feathered around a face of extraordinary beauty; beneath a masculine browline her eyes were thickly lashed and violet as the jewels which trimmed her cloak at collar and hem.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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It wasn't just his browline, though even the women were half bald.
A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976
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Photo2: Pictured-Two wild and krazy guys; Not-Pictured - Security with warrants for drug possession, indecent exposure, and having an inhumanly large browline.
Yahoo! Sports - Top News Maggie Hendricks 2010
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