tisdag 25 augusti 2009

Unibrow, for the realy hard man.

A unibrow or, rarely, monobrow, medically known as a synophrys, refers to a "confluence of eyebrows"; i.e. the presence of abundant hair
Hair

Hair is a protein filament that epidermal growth from hair follicle deep within the dermis. The fine, soft hair found on many nonhuman mammals is typically called fur; wool is the characteristically curly hair found on sheep and goats....
between the eyebrows, so that they seem to converge to form one long eyebrow.

The words unibrow and monobrow are now in the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press , is a comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Two fully-bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989; as of December 2008 the dictionary's current editors have completed a quarter of the third edition....
, and unibrow was added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Merriam-Webster

Merriam?Webster, which was originally the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is an United States company that publishes reference books, especially dictionary that are descendants of Noah Webster An American Dictionary of the English Language ....
in 2006. Medical dictionaries, such as Dorland's Medical Dictionary, now contain the word synophrys.

The unibrow conventionally has negative associations in western culture, and is the reason why many people remove excess hair between the eyebrows.

Beauty culture
In Western perception, a unibrow may make a person seem ugly, fierce, grumpy, or over-serious, so much so that the unibrow has become something of a cliché in fiction, especially with cartoon characters (see below).

Among Western women, the region between the brows is often plucked, waxed, shaved, or treated with electrolysis or other forms of depilation.

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