"Shaven"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 25 20:46:03 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
> "Shaven head" seems natural to me, "shaved head" also natural. I'm not
> sure which I would more often say.
>
> _Always "clean-shaven" though, I think._

Me, too.

After getting his head shaved, John had a shaven head.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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