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imberb

imberb adjective: beardless.

Adjective

imberb (comparative more imberb, superlative most imberb)

  1. (rare) Beardless.
    • He was a very young man with pale hair to which heavy oiling had given a curious greyish colour, and a face of such childish contour and so imberb that he looked like a little boy playing at grown-ups.1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay
    • Think of the hundreds of imberb boys and impubert girls it had needed to placate the Cretan minotaur!1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 972

Forms of imberb

comparativemore imberb
superlativemost imberb

Origin of imberb

From French imberbe, from Latin imberbis.

Questions about imberb

What does imberb mean?
Imberb means beardless.
What part of speech is imberb?
Imberb is an adjective.

Words near imberb in the dictionary

  1. imbenching
  2. imbenchings
  3. Imber
  4. imber-geese
  5. imber-goose
  6. imberb
  7. imberline
  8. imberlines
  9. Imbert
  10. Imberts
  11. imbes

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