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lowbrow Aug 27th 2011, 01:18 Etymology: added a missing s ← Older revision Revision as of 01:18, 27 August 2011 Line 6: Line 6: ===Etymology=== ===Etymology=== - From [[low]] and [[brow]], Americanism, circa 1902. Refers to the (by that time discredited) pseudoscience of phrenology, which suggested that a person of low intelligence and sophistication would posses a lower brow-line than someone of greater intelligence and sophistication. + From [[low]] and [[brow]], Americanism, circa 1902. Refers to the (by that time discredited) pseudoscience of phrenology, which suggested that a person of low intelligence and sophistication would possess a lower brow-line than someone of greater intelligence and sophistication. ===Adjective=== ===Adjective===

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