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eyebrow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eyebrow
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eyebrow pencil
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ So, since he is disappearing from sight, he has dyed his hair black, eyebrows, too.
▪ He's smiling out of a rugged face, with thick black eyebrows and curling hair.
▪ Farrar was short with livery lips and thick black eyebrows, and Something was prematurely bald and thought he was really cool.
▪ He has thick black eyebrows, dark brown eyes, whitening sideburns and a pencil-thin mustache.
▪ He raised his black eyebrows in a look so disbelieving that she could only repeat what she'd said.
▪ Her thin black eyebrows appeared to have been recently painted.
bushy
▪ They were hard pin-points of slate blue beneath bushy eyebrows.
▪ She was a young nun with a deeply pocked face and bushy eyebrows that massed over the bridge of her large nose.
▪ His long bushy eyebrows, mingling with his coarse black hairline, made him appear to have no forehead at all.
▪ And those bushy eyebrows that resembled dark clouds on his horizon.-How come?
▪ His hair was grey but with a trace of red hair remaining in his bushy eyebrows.
▪ White beard, formidable mustache, and bushy white eyebrows did nothing to make him look grandfatherly.
▪ With his dome, bushy eyebrows and wide if not always convincing smile, he was a commanding figure.
▪ The black beard, for example, and the overly bushy eyebrows.
dark
▪ In his forties, he had thick dark eyebrows and an aggressive thrust to his jaw.
▪ Ballesteros hunched his shoulders, put his palms up in the air, and raised his dark, thick eyebrows.
▪ An attractive face, with dark eyes and dark eyebrows, but no revelation.
▪ Lost for words, he looked shyly down at her, smiling sadly so that his dark eyebrows puckered into a frown.
▪ Merrill's dark eyebrows lifted a little; surely there ought to be a reception desk, and some one to attend to visitors?
▪ She has long dark hair over her shoulders, and thick dark eyebrows.
▪ He has fine dark eyebrows, and an overhanging forehead.
heavy
▪ Kate saw two young, surprised black eyes under heavy eyebrows as she gently squeezed the trigger.
▪ His large eyes might have been girlish had it not been for his unusually heavy eyebrows.
raised
▪ I earn my first of these by commenting that there were a few raised eyebrows when his peerage was announced last June.
▪ Private Boyd allowed herself a raised eyebrow as she went by.
▪ The Bishop looked at Corbett with raised eyebrows and gestured to him to proceed.
▪ Her ironic smile and quizzically raised eyebrows excluded the rest of the dead people.
▪ The note of anger carried to the groups and couples passing by, provoking amusement and raised eyebrows.
▪ Not another word, a sigh, no raised eyebrow or even an impatient puff of cigar smoke.
▪ Hari looked at him with raised eyebrows.
thick
▪ In his forties, he had thick dark eyebrows and an aggressive thrust to his jaw.
▪ Ballesteros hunched his shoulders, put his palms up in the air, and raised his dark, thick eyebrows.
▪ He's smiling out of a rugged face, with thick black eyebrows and curling hair.
▪ Farrar was short with livery lips and thick black eyebrows, and Something was prematurely bald and thought he was really cool.
▪ She has long dark hair over her shoulders, and thick dark eyebrows.
▪ Thick hair, thick eyebrows, nose, lips, shoulders and tailoring.
▪ He was a well-cared-for man of sixty, with thick silver eyebrows that hung over alert eyes.
■ NOUN
pencil
▪ Yves Saint Laurent No. 3 eyebrow pencil.
■ VERB
arch
▪ Rachel daintily arched one eyebrow as if I had mentioned inviting her servants to some feast or revelry.
▪ He stuck his face in front of mine, hardly an inch away, arched his eyebrows and let his head quiver.
▪ Sonnenberg made the face again and arched his eyebrows.
▪ He arched his eyebrows and waved his hand, as if to say, Begin, boy, let me hear.
lift
▪ There was Lionel's lifted eyebrow.
▪ I lifted my eyebrows to Takat.
▪ Theodora lifted an eyebrow and with a caught glance drew them in to introductions.
▪ Her three sisters lift their eyebrows at each other.
▪ The friendly cop lifted his eyebrows and pushed his cap back on his head.
▪ His lifted eyebrows put a couple of wrinkles in the thick-looking skin of his forehead.
▪ She lifts her eyebrows and looks the place over.
look
▪ Do follow the natural shape - drawing in new eyebrows can make you look permanently surprised or over-made-up.
▪ She lifts her eyebrows and looks the place over.
▪ And yet their eyes, their lips, a certain shy grin or quizzical cant of an eyebrow, look strangely familiar.
pluck
▪ She could even pluck her eyebrows!
▪ She did not even like to pluck her eyebrows in his presence.
▪ She used lipstick and had plucked eyebrows and wore bright hats.
▪ Because you can lose your mind staying in two rooms, and so I fix my hair and pluck my eyebrows.
raise
▪ Trans World's ability to perform so well during this period raised eyebrows.
▪ That would raise eyebrows, as well as suspicions of special treatment.
▪ As the Minister raises his eyebrow, I recommend my excellent speech on competitive tendering of 20 January in the House.
▪ Amy Lehman as the dry Miss Casewell has perfected the eloquent raised eyebrow.
▪ He raised his black eyebrows in a look so disbelieving that she could only repeat what she'd said.
▪ When Frank caught my eye, I smiled at him and raised my eyebrows.
▪ It sank for a moment, then rose again, and Alexei saw Jotan raise his eyebrows.
▪ Sexually, the movie may raise some eyebrows.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pluck your eyebrows
▪ Because you can lose your mind staying in two rooms, and so I fix my hair and pluck my eyebrows.
▪ She could even pluck her eyebrows!
▪ She did not even like to pluck her eyebrows in his presence.
raise eyebrows
▪ But for many, stories about one night-stands are more inclined to raise eyebrows than get them giggling.
▪ But the case has raised eyebrows if not heightened tensions.
▪ Obviously Kaplan's recording will raise eyebrows.
▪ Sukey raised eyebrows when he ordered rather too good a bottle of claret in restaurants.
▪ That would raise eyebrows, as well as suspicions of special treatment.
▪ The North Star's team never failed to raise eyebrows nomatterwhere they travelled, being five stout brothers of almost identical appearance.
▪ The power that these organisations are beginning to exert is already raising eyebrows in the offices of some competition authorities.
▪ Trans World's ability to perform so well during this period raised eyebrows.
raise your eyebrows
▪ He raised his eyebrows but he didn't actually skewer my hand to his desk with his favourite kris.
▪ Karen smiled and raised her eyebrows: Check that!
▪ Rose raised his eyebrows and drank a cup of Mrs Burbanks' tea.
▪ She raised her eyebrows and drew out a hank of hair, backing slowly away from me.
▪ She did not speak when he raised his eyebrows the second time, so in went onions, mustard and ketchup.
▪ While he was pouring the drinks Ron the landlord raised his eyebrows at me.
▪ Your facial expressions can help to emphasize parts of your speech too: try smiling, scowling, or raising your eyebrows.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For a time I could communicate only by raising my eyebrows when some one pointed to letters on a card.
▪ He raised his eyebrows, waited.-Sir, he assaulted me.
▪ Her appointment by Clinton to such an important job raised many eyebrows, but she has proved a popular and effective envoy.
▪ Merrill's dark eyebrows lifted a little; surely there ought to be a reception desk, and some one to attend to visitors?
▪ She lifts her eyebrows and looks the place over.
▪ The eyebrows and eyelashes were drawn in an then very pale washes were put on, the paint smooth and even.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
eyebrow

eyebrow \eye"brow`\, n. The brow or hairy arch above the eye.
--Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eyebrow

also eye-brow, early 15c., from eye (n.) + brow (q.v.; Old English eagbræw meant "eyelid").

Wiktionary
eyebrow

n. 1 The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket. 2 (context construction English) A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.

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WordNet
eyebrow

n. the arch of hair above each eye [syn: brow, supercilium]

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Wikipedia
Eyebrow

The eyebrow is an area of thick, delicate hairs above the eye that follows the shape of the lower margin of the brow ridges of some mammals. Eyebrows come in many shapes and sizes, some people (generally men) have thick and bushy eyebrows, whereas others (generally women) have thinner, more pointed eyebrows. The eyebrows main function is hypothesized to prevent sweat, water, and other debris from falling down into the eye socket, but they are also important to human communication and facial expression. It is not uncommon for people to modify their eyebrows by means of hair addition, removal and makeup.

Eyebrow (disambiguation)

Eyebrow may refer to:

  • Eyebrow, the patch of hair above the human eye
  • Eyebrows (advertisement), a British advertising campaign for Cadbury chocolate
  • Eyebrow, Saskatchewan, a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan
  • Eyebrow magazine, an online satirical publication
  • The Eyebrow, a mountain in Montana
  • Monkeys Eyebrow, Kentucky, a rural community
  • Supercilium, a plumage feature, also known as the "eyebrow", of a bird

Usage examples of "eyebrow".

Carefully, to avoid destroying any existing prints, she removed its contents with a pair of eyebrow tweezers, then unfolded the thin sheets of airmail paper.

With contracted eyebrows, the airman would watch the intricate designs she traced on the floor with her small, pretty feet.

My mother asked him to talk to her and he returned from the guest house with his Fra Angelico eyebrows lifted in tender exasperation.

She glared at him with her hands on her hips, her mouth set irritably aslant upward, her eyebrows gathered into a dark knot over her nose.

Captain Bazan Deralta had an old, lined face with tufted eyebrows and a pinched nose set above a firm mouth and prominent jaw.

Next morning, just as I was going to get into my carriage, a young man between twenty-five and thirty, tall and strong and broad shouldered, his eyes black and glittering, his eyebrows strongly arched, and his general air being that of a cut-throat, accosted me and begged me to step aside and hear what he had to say.

Theodore de Beze was anxious to introduce a taste for the arts, for literature, and for poesy into Geneva, and Calvin listened to his plans without knitting his thick gray eyebrows.

RavenCrest snapped, drawing himself to his full height and glaring at the birdman from under beetling black eyebrows.

It was a faceremarkably ugly with wide-stretched blubbery lips, pale blue protuberant eyes under almost invisible eyebrows, and a fat, spread-out nose cherry-red at the very tipthat she had seen before.

Milt Warden, who was the one who had suggested Salvatore Clark for the apprentice bugler, after Clark almost shot himself on guard, went on studying his papers, but his eyebrows quivered.

Nemo looked up to see a long-legged man with hazel eyes, bushy dark eyebrows, and a ridiculously huge black mustache that balanced like a canoe upon his lip.

The elder Verne looked up at his son, bushy eyebrows knit in puzzlement, though Jules knew he was aware of the situation.

Fredo missed being handsome on account of an exceptionally large nose, small eyes and alarmingly bushy eyebrows.

For long seconds Elias stared at Emma, his bushy eyebrows arched questioningly high above his steel gray eyes.

His bushy graying eyebrows arched questioningly, disbelievingly above the sharp glitter of steel gray eyes, and then Emma saw him burst out laughing as he ran toward her.