[
UK
/bˈiədləs/
]
ADJECTIVE
- having no beard
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lacking hair on the face
a smooth-faced boy of 14 years
How To Use beardless In A Sentence
- It suggests a sense of humour, a willingness to make an effort, an aspiration towards the airy, healthy, beardless Scandinavian lifestyle.
- And the most striking (and very beautiful) image in the show depicts the 56-year-old Shah 'Abbas caressing a beardless, round-cheeked, almond-eyed pageboy, who is holding an exaggeratedly phallic wine flask between his knees. A New Look at the Old Iran
- ‘Right,’ the beardless man agreed, knowing his friend had a point.
- Each grain is covered with a husk called the ‘lemma’ which may or may not have a long hair or ‘beard’ on the tip; modern wheats include bearded and beardless varieties.
- More problematic yet is the all-male cast, which in the Elizabethan theater featured beardless youths plausible in female roles, but here offers adult men inadvertently or, in one case, deliberately, camping.
- Just snatched from the cradle and hastily weaned, they mouth the rules of Priscian and Donatus; while still beardless boys they gabble with childish stammering the Categorics and Peri The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
- The man was tall and slender, his body toned and fit, with pale skin and a rather angular face that was beardless.
- Recorded in his diary probably in 1685, Mather's vision of a winged, beardless angel sporting a ‘splendid tiara’ is surprising, virtually unprecedented.
- David is shown as a young, beardless figure with short, dark hair, clad in a purple chlamys, fastened at the shoulder (though no fibula is represented), beneath which a white and golden yellow garment can be seen.
- The painting - The Calling Of Saints Peter And Andrew - depicts the two saints with a young, beardless Christ.