Definitions
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- adjective Being without whiskers.
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- adjective Without
whiskers .
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- adjective having no beard
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nic, please don't go back to that ... whiskerless ... thing on your head.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice International Movie Trailer | /Film 2010
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(Mr Towlinson is whiskerless himself), who has been hired to accompany the happy pair to Paris, and who is busy packing the new chariot.
Dombey and Son 2007
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You looked over a very low fence of white cravat (whereof no man had ever beheld the tie for he fastened it behind), and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless before you.
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The small-billed cap on his head shaded little of his sun-reddened and whiskerless face.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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The small-billed cap on his head shaded little of his sun-reddened and whiskerless face.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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"In fact, you look very much like his pictures, -- as much as a gray, bald-headed, whiskerless man could look like a black-bearded one."
Heart of Gold Ruth Alberta Brown
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Fortunately, we remembered in time that this portrait-gentleman, old as he was, did not quite reach back to the days of those first settlers; and that he had lived to see the great change of fashion (in the reign of Charles II) that made Englishmen for generations whiskerless and bewigged.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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His face was whiskerless; his eyes gray; his cheek-bones a little higher than the average; his hair auburn; his nose not Grecian -- or Roman -- but still impressive: his air one of quiet dignity, mingled with youthful joyance and mirthfulness.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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"Hullo," said he, sticking his glass in his eye and looking at Ann. "What makes the whiskerless one so cheerful?"
The Wonderful Bed Gertrude Knevels 1921
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He told himself of the great resolution to which he had come on that famous morning when he awoke to find himself whiskerless.
Once on a Time Charles Robinson 1919
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