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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whisker +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Nic, please don't go back to that ... whiskerless ... thing on your head.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentice International Movie Trailer | /Film 2010

  • (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

  • 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.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • The small-billed cap on his head shaded little of his sun-reddened and whiskerless face.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

  • The small-billed cap on his head shaded little of his sun-reddened and whiskerless face.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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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