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[GLAY-brahs] 
1. having no hair or bristles; smooth; 'glabrous stems'; 'glabrous leaves'; 'a glabrous scalp': "She is obsessive about tanning her newly glabrous body."
noun form: glabrousness
Origin:
Approximately 1650; from Latin, 'glaber': bald. In action:
glabrous "A resident of Bloomfield, Mr. Anderson is an artist whose medium is acrylic paint applied with airbrushes and spray guns.
When allowed, such devices can exert an imperious control over the artist and his paint, but Mr. Anderson handles them with an authoritative and precise hand. He is avowedly after smooth, glabrous surfaces undisturbed by brush marks and pronounced shadows, and that is what he gets when he subjects the paint to his technique."
David L. Shirey. "Artist and Medium Require a Rapport," The New York Times (October 21, 1984).
"Well, good luck to her as far as the social construct goes, but I fear that she and her online cheerleaders may have underestimated the degree to which any socially-constructed notion of beauty rests on foundations that aren't always susceptible to cultural re- engineering. The ideal of the glabrous women is so consistent through different cultures and different ages that the suspicion arises that it must have been cemented into place by a hard-wired evolutionary preference."
Thomas Sutcliffe. "The stand-up comedian Shazia Mirza," The [London] Independent (January 16, 2007).
"Skin: brown color (RHSCC 165B); moderately heavy russet pattern; not scaly. Eyes: shallow; slightly prominent eyebrow; predominantly apical; moderate number of eyes per tuber, mean 16.6, range 8 to 27. Flesh: cream color (RHSCC 158D); slightly prominent pith region. Dormancy: medium-long, approximately 130 days when stored at 5 C. Light sprouts: medium to dark reddish-brown anthocyanin pigmentation; globose to slightly oblong base; open bud scales; slightly glabrous base with hirsute bud scales."
S L Love. "GemStar Russet: A Potato Variety with High Yield, Good Culinary Quality, Excellent Fresh Market Appearance, and Resistance to Common Scab," American Journal of Potato Research (March/April 2006).
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