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SMOOTH-SKINNED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does smooth-skinned mean?
• SMOOTH-SKINNED (adjective)
The adjective SMOOTH-SKINNED has 1 sense:
1. having smooth skin
Familiarity information: SMOOTH-SKINNED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having smooth skin
Similar:
skinned (having skin of a specified kind)
Context examples
For a handsome and not an unamiable-looking man, he repelled me exceedingly: there was no power in that smooth-skinned face of a full oval shape: no firmness in that aquiline nose and small cherry mouth; there was no thought on the low, even forehead; no command in that blank, brown eye.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A twitch brought away the tangled red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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