facial hair
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Her dark, arched eyebrows and soft facial hair complement the membranous leaves behind her."
- "The Mbaya of the Amazon remove all facial hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, and sneer at full-browed whites as "ostrich-brothers"."
- "Some tribes also practiced nose piercing, and men typically removed their eyelashes, eyebrows and facial hair through plucking."
- "Because women naturally do not have a great deal of hair on their faces, it is considered a sign of femininity to have as little facial hair (except for eyebrows and eyelashes) as possible"
- "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 all this ageing crap, already. I have one facial hair. It’s not as though I’m about to start baying at the moon . . .’"