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lack-looks en · NOUN

Etymology

From lack + looks.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) An unattractive person.
    • Oh but our sweet fac't Gentlewomen will keepe your profession in great request; our lacke-lookes and barren-beauties will vphold it for euer, when the old Baude like a greene apple parch't in an Ouen, or the Italian coulorist with his new cast face shall present this good complexion. 1618, Thomas Decker, The Owles Almanacke:

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Synonyms

unattractive person