clean-shaven

See also: cleanshaven

English

Alternative forms

• cleanshaven, clean-shaved

Pronunciation

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Adjective

clean-shaven (comparative more clean-shaven, superlative most clean-shaven)

1. Having had hair (especially facial hair) shaved off, so that it is no longer visible.

   a clean-shaven man; a clean-shaven face; a clean-shaven leg

   • 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “How the Brigadier Triumphed in England”, in The Adventures of Gerard‎^[1]:

     A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.

Translations

having had hair shaved off

• German: glattrasiert
• Greek: καλοξυρισμένος (el) (kaloxyrisménos)
• Polish: ogolony m
• Russian: безбородый (ru) (bezborodyj)
• Swedish: slätrakad (sv)

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• Finnish: parraton (fi); sileäleukainen, sileäposkinen
• Scottish Gaelic: air a bhearradh