Meanings
comparative more imberb · superlative most imberb
- rareBeardless.
Think of the hundreds of imberb boys and impubert girls it had needed to placate the Cretan minotaur!
1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 9721 more example
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.
1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay
Origin
- Latinimberbis
- Frenchimberbe
- Englishimberb
From French imberbe, from Latin imberbis.
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