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[shoern] 
1. with hair cut very short: "He ran his hand over his freshly shorn head several times and grinned sheepishly."
2. having had something taken away; 'shorn of all the trappings of wealth'
also: past participle of shear
Origin:
Approximately 900; from Old English, 'sceran': to cut. In action:
"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). Don Quixote.
"I dreamed as in my bed I lay,
All night's fathomless wisdom come,
That I had shorn my locks away
And laid them on Love's lettered tomb:
But something bore them out of sight
In a great tumult of the air."
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Irish poet, playwright. 'XIII. Her Dream.'
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768). British author. Maria, quoting a French proverb in A Sentimental Journey (1768).
"This is the cock that crowed in the morn
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn."
Mother Goose (17th-18th century). The House That Jack Built.
"'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, 'art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore--
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). U.S. poet. The Raven.
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