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Word entry · 4 letters

brow

Best crossword clue

"Forehead ridge"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /bɹaʊ/Part of speech nounSorted borwStarts with BEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the arch of hair above each eye

Word origin

From Middle English browe, from Old English brū, from Proto-West Germanic *brāwu, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”).

Used in a sentence

  • ’Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, / Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream / That can entame my spirits to your worship.
  • And his arch’d brow, pulled o’er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.
  • Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war, And thus hath so bestirr’d thee in thy sleep, That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow Like bubbles in a late-disturb’d stream,[…]

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