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CLEAN-SHAVEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Closely shaved recently
Synonyms:
clean-shaven; smooth-shaven; well-shaven
Classified under:
Similar:
shaved; shaven (having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin)
Context examples:
He snatched off the dark beard which had disguised him and threw it on the ground, disclosing a long, sallow, clean-shaven face below it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was instantly opened by a bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step in.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He is a big, powerful chap, clean-shaven, and very swarthy— something like Aldridge, who helped us in the bogus laundry affair.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Behind the thrones there stood two men in purple gowns, with ascetic, clean-shaven faces, and half a dozen other high dignitaries and office-holders of Aquitaine.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The American, a quiet, businesslike young man, with a clean-shaven, hatchet face, flushed up at the words of commendation.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His heavy-jowled, clean-shaven face expressed ferocity as well as courage, and he stood with his small, blood-shot eyes fixed viciously upon Jim, and his lumpy shoulders stooping a little forwards, like a fierce hound training on a leash.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a dark, sallow, clean-shaven, silent person, but he had polite manners and a pleasant smile.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating grey eyes.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the middle of the floor of the empty room was huddled the figure of an enormous man, his clean-shaven, swarthy face grotesquely horrible in its contortion and his head encircled by a ghastly crimson halo of blood, lying in a broad wet circle upon the white woodwork.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His heavy, placid, clean-shaven face could set very sternly, as I have seen upon occasion; but for me and every child in the village there was ever a smile upon his lips and a greeting in his eyes.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
