imberb

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English

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Etymology

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From French imberbe, from Latin imberbis.

Adjective

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imberb (comparative more imberb, superlative most imberb)

  1. (rare) Beardless.
    • 1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay:
      He was a very young man with pale hair to which heavy oiling had given a curious greyish colour, and a face of such childish contour and so imberb that he looked like a little boy playing at grown-ups.
    • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 972:
      Think of the hundreds of imberb boys and impubert girls it had needed to placate the Cretan minotaur!

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French imberbe, from Latin imberbis.

Adjective

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imberb m or n (feminine singular imberbă, masculine plural imberbi, feminine and neuter plural imberbe)

  1. beardless

Declension

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