facial hairs

Noun

facial hair (usually uncountable, plural facial hairs)

1. (usually) Hair on, or from, the face of a human, such as the eyebrows, beard or moustache.
   • 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.1988 July, Cathy Gillen Thacker, chapter 14, in Fatal Amusement (Harlequin Intrigue), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 211

   Synonyms:

   face pubes

2. (usually) Hair on, or from, the face of an animal.
3. (countable, rare, usually) A single hair on, or from, the face.
   • 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...1998, Kathy Lette, “Send In the Crones”, in Altar Ego, London: Picador, →ISBN, part 1 (The Wedding), page 45