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facial hair

noun

Etymology

From facial + hair. First use appears c. 1830, in the Morning Herald.

  1. inherited from here
  2. derived from *kes-✻ — “to scrape, comb”
  3. inherited from *hērą✻ — “hair”
  4. inherited from *hār✻
  5. inherited from hǣr
  6. inherited from her
  7. compounded as facial hair — “facial + hair”

Definitions

  1. Hair on, or from, the face of a human, such as the eyebrows, beard or moustache.

    • Shaving gear? The man had a beard—or he had one the last time Marianne had seen him. And yet there were flecks of shaving foam and facial hair in the sink.
    • Her dark, arched eyebrows and soft facial hair complement the membranous leaves behind her.
    • The Mbaya of the Amazon remove all facial hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, and sneer at full-browed whites as "ostrich-brothers".

  2. Hair on, or from, the face of an animal.

  3. A single hair on, or from, the face.

    • In (b), one facial hair of the cat is damaged. This can be categorized as size, shape, or a color defect.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for facial hair. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA