"brows" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is the plural form of the noun "brow", which can refer to either the arch of eyebrow hairs above a person's eyes or to the forehead. You can use it in a variety of sentences, such as, "She raised her brows in surprise" or "He furrowed his brows in concentration".
Brows are now being furrowed at Threadneedle Street over the looming embarrassment of an extraordinary letter that Sir Edward George, the Bank's governor, may soon have to write to Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer.Sir Edward, once memorably accused of being an "inflation-nutter", has to meet the precise terms of the government's remit to the Bank for controlling inflation.
THE tactics used by Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Pershing Square Capital, an activist hedge fund, in their hostile bid for Allergan, the maker of Botox, have furrowed some brows.
But over the weekend, when Egypt's generals set about killing scores of protesters, the West responded with furrowed brows and pleas for all sides to refrain from violence.
Having repeatedly protested his innocence, Mr Huhne pleaded guilty on February 4th; brows furrowed, commentators lamented the damage this did to MPs' public standing.
Vowing to turn the police into "ratcatchers, not social workers", he became the Tory poster boy for the reform, though more recent hints that he would quite like to do the job part-time have furrowed brows.
The lanky boy, with his dark brows, had shaken the dust from his feet and gone away to study.
It almost persuaded a court that the vote would disenfranchise the state's minorities, so should be ruled illegal.Raise the spectre of the digital divide with the technology vendors and e-government champions within the public sector, and their brows furrow with concern but not for long.
And they are no longer the only ones with furrowed brows.
WHETHER strong religious identity, and the ethical views that go with it, necessarily undercut national identity has long furrowed brows, especially in Western secular democracies with heavy immigration.
Nearly half fell all the way into the bottom fifth.These findings have furrowed many brows.
"The longer this drags on, the less draconian the outcome should be, as long as markets continue to mend," says one lobbyist.No one doubts that the financial package will pass eventually, and that the final product will still contain plenty to furrow the lobbyists' brows.
