en brosse
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French en brosse (“crew cut”).
Adverb[edit]
en brosse (not comparable)
- (dated) Of the hair: closely cropped so that the hairs stick upward, like the short bristles of a brush; in a crew cut.
- 1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Diamonds Are Forever:
- He had a very square face whose sharp angles were accentuated by short, wiry black hair, cut en brosse and without side-whiskers.