frown
/ˈfɹaʊ̯n/ sustantivo C1En español: ceño, zuño, encapotadura, encapotamiento
- A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.
- A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness.
- Any facial expression that indicates disapproval or displeasure.
Plural frowns
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“What position?” he asked, with a frown.
“Then how comes it,” said Monte Cristo with a frown, “that, when I desired you to purchase for me the finest pair of horses to be found in Paris, there is another pair, fully as fine as mine, not in my stables?”
She was beautiful, but her beauty was of too marked and decided a character to please a fastidious taste; her hair was raven black, but its natural waves seemed somewhat rebellious; her eyes, of the same color as her hair, were surmounted by well-arched brows, whose great defect, however, consisted in an almost habitual frown, while her whole physiognomy wore that expression of firmness and decision so little in accordance with the gentler attributes of her sex—her nose was precisely what a sculptor would have chosen for a chiselled Juno.
Bertuccio was awaiting this arrival with impatience, mingled with uneasiness; he hoped for some compliments, while, at the same time, he feared to have frowns.
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