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a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes. ... a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob. ... Lowbrow art...
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Origin: 1903; Americans can claim credit for both highbrow and lowbrow, the upper and lower levels of culture and cultivation. Highbrow seems to have come first, most likely around 1903, but lowbrow is close on its heels.
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In Reply to: Re: Highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow posted by bob on May 21, 2003 ... : : : Hi! Can you please explain the origin and meaning of the word "lowbrow?" Thank you, Sax ... : : HIGHBROW/LOWBROW - "Dr. Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), founder of the 'science' of phrenology, gave support to the old folk notion that people...
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In Reply to: Lowbrow posted by Sax on May 20, 2003 ... : Hi! Can you please explain the origin and meaning of the word "lowbrow?" Thank you, Sax ... HIGHBROW/LOWBROW - "Dr. Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), founder of the 'science' of phrenology, gave support to the old folk notion that people with big foreheads have more...
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Lowbrow (art movement) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lowbrow , or lowbrow art , describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. Lowbrow is a widespread populist art movement with origins...
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The very accent of the words "Highbrow" and "Lowbrow" implies an instinctive perception that this is a very unsatisfactory state of affairs. ... Etymology, Etymology, and more Etymology as well as grammar, usage, euphemism, slang, jargon, semantics (meaning), linguistics, neologism, idiom, word origin, syntax, dialect,
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Sources and additional reading on this topic: ... The name Palestine refers to a region of the eastern Mediterranean coast from the sea to the Jordan valley and from the southern Negev desert to the Galilee lake region in the north. The word itself derives from "Plesheth", a name that ... EARLY HISTORY; PALESTINE ORIGIN...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about lowbrow. lowbrow. Information about lowbrow in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from lowbrow) ... Member of a seafaring people of non-Semitic origin who founded city-states on the Palestinian coastal plain in the 12th century BC, adopting a Semitic language and religion.
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