James: forehead/brow

[Marius Hancu]

Hello:

Any difference in style or usage between "forehead" and "brow" in such
a context?

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[Sally Pocock visits Paris]

What had told in any case at the window of the train was her high
clear forehead, that forehead which her friends, for some reason,
always thought of as a "brow"; the long reach of her eyes—it came out
at this juncture in such a manner as to remind him, oddly enough, also
of that of Waymarsh's; and the unusual gloss of her dark hair, dressed
and hatted, after her mother's refined example, with such an avoidance
of extremes that it was always spoken of at Woollett as "their own."

Henry James, The Ambassadors, p. 226
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/432/432-h/432-h.htm
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Thanks.
Marius Hancu

[Jerry Friedman]

On Nov 20, 8:56 am, Roger Burton West <roger
+aue200...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
> Marius Hancu  wrote:

> >Any difference in style or usage between "forehead" and "brow" in such
> >a context?
>

> "Brow" is being used to suggest the prominent forehead which some
> cultures consider unattractive in women. (Normally, in modern usage, I'd
> expect "brow" to suggest a low forehead and prominent brow ridges, and
> an author might use it as a marker of low intelligence.)

I had the opposite impression--"brow" suggests poetry and the
beautiful women praised in poetry. But I may be a lowbrow.

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Jerry Friedman

[Marius Hancu]

On Nov 20, 10:56 am, Roger Burton West <roger

+aue200...@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
>
> >Any difference in style or usage between "forehead" and "brow" in such
> >a context?
>

> "Brow" is being used to suggest the prominent forehead which some
> cultures consider unattractive in women. (Normally, in modern usage, I'd
> expect "brow" to suggest a low forehead and prominent brow ridges, and
> an author might use it as a marker of low intelligence.)

Interesting.

Thanks.
Marius Hancu