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brow

[brou]

noun

  1. Anatomy.the ridge over the eye.

  2. the hair growing on that ridge; eyebrow.

  3. the forehead.

    He wore his hat low over his brow.

  4. a person's countenance or mien.

  5. the edge of a steep place.

    She looked down over the brow of the hill.

  6. gangplank.



brow

/ ʊ /

noun

  1. the part of the face from the eyes to the hairline; forehead

  2. short for eyebrow

  3. the expression of the face; countenance

    a troubled brow

  4. the top of a mine shaft; pithead

  5. the jutting top of a hill, etc

  6. dialecta steep slope on a road

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brow1

before 1000; Middle English browe, Old English ū; akin to Old Norse ū, Sanskrit ū
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brow1

Old English ū ; related to Old Norse ūn eyebrow, Lithuanian bruvis , Greek ophrus , Sanskrit ū
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Frequently, she’s shown smoldering with fury or dark intent, gazing up from under her brows with a lowered chin, something Moss says she lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s films.

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Hine’s tousled little boy, who looks forlornly into the camera with scowling dark eyes beneath a furrowed brow, likely had no such liberating choice.

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Back in 2015, when I lived there, even a mention of a tuna melt drew a furrowed brow.

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But, admittedly, the most cringe-worthy attempt at low brow humor came last week when the Trump administration paraded a crime-victim’s mother through the briefing room.

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The 44-year-old is an effusive storyteller who delights in the details as she grins broadly or furrows her brow in thought.

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