unwhiskered en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + whiskered.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without whiskers.
The four bearers, all unwhiskered eunuchs, stood in front of the chairs, their hands tucked into their sleeves, looks of disdain on their faces.
2013, Mo Yan, chapter 2, in Howard Goldblatt, transl., Sandalwood Death, University of Oklahoma Press:[…] he was fifty or thereabouts, a little inclined to corpulence, a prepossessing face, unwhiskered, and of an agreeable color—a rather full face, humanely intelligent in expression.
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.: