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Facial hair
noun
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Noun
- 1 Hair on, or from, the face of a human, such as the eyebrows, beard or moustache. uncountable, usually
"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."
- 2 hair on the face (especially on the face of a man) wordnet
- 3 Hair on, or from, the face of an animal. uncountable, usually
- 4 A single hair on, or from, the face. countable, rare, usually
"Wielding a cotton bud like a miniature police truncheon, she pointed to one small black hair I’d never noticed sprouting from my chin. It looked, in the magnified looking glass, like a sequoia tree. / ‘Where the hell did that come from?’ / ‘It’s normal as we age that . . .’ / ‘Would you stop with all this ageing crap, already. I have one facial hair. It’s not as though I’m about to start baying at the moon . . .’"
Etymology
From facial + hair. First use appears c. 1830, in the Morning Herald.
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