CLEAN-SHAVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clean-shaven mean? 

• CLEAN-SHAVEN (adjective)
  The adjective CLEAN-SHAVEN has 1 sense:

1. closely shaved recently

  Familiarity information: CLEAN-SHAVEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEAN-SHAVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Closely shaved recently

Synonyms:

clean-shaven; smooth-shaven; well-shaven

Similar:

shaved; shaven (having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin)

 Context examples 

I should say that only a clean-shaven man could have smoked this.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a dapper, brisk man, very richly clad, with a round, clean-shaven face, and very bright black eyes, which danced and sparkled with excitement.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rules of the service insured that every face should be clean-shaven, every head powdered, and every neck covered by the little queue of natural hair tied with a black silk ribbon.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a little, white-faced, clean-shaven, grizzly-haired fellow of fifty.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But The Hornet was run by a set of clean-shaven, strapping young men, frank buccaneers who robbed everything and everybody, not excepting one another.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The face, clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large, resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big, bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The pawner was a large, clean-shaven man of clerical appearance.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To my childish imagination it was a personal affair, and I for ever saw my father and this clean-shaven, thin-lipped man swaying and reeling in a deadly, year-long grapple.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)