Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having black eyebrows; gloomy; dismal; threatening: as, “a black-browed gust,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
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Examples
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South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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This gentleman, who collected fine editions and was a patron of literature, paid blackmail to a heavy-jowled, black-browed boss of a municipal machine.
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This gentleman, who collected fine editions and was an especial patron of literature, paid blackmail to a heavy-jowled, black-browed boss of a municipal machine.
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South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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He isn't only torn between the male beloved ("lord of my love", the fair angel, more lovely and temperate than a summer's day) and the black-browed female whose eyes are nothing like the sun and whose breath "reeks" (the contrast between these extremes seems almost parodistic).
Love in literature 2011
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South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white seabird similar to a petrel).
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Governments Fear Environmentalists Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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For the first time she was unafraid of this big-bodied, black-browed men with the hairy-matted hands and fingers.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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Some strange men come to see Tom, men "with the reminiscent roll of the sea in their gait," others "black-browed ruffians," others "fever-burnt and sallow."
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The strange men who came to visit Tom Travers -- some "with the reminiscent roll of the sea in their gait"; others "black-browed ruffians"; others "fever-burnt and sallow" soldiers of fortune, adventurers, freelancers of the world -- were the kind of men London knew and admired.
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