Alabaster brow

Alabaster brow

An alabaster brow is an often-used (or even clichéd) literary device, used particularly in romantic fiction. It describes the forehead of someone who is particularly pale, and usually young and handsome/beautiful.

Uses

Its first recorded use was in 1894, in "The Protestation", an ode by a British clergyman, Selwyn Image, that appeared in a collection entitled "Poems and Carols"::DEAR Eyes, set deep within the shade ::Of Love’s pale alabaster brow; :Of what strange substance are ye made, ::That such enchantments on me now, :Resistless, by your grace are laid?

It is also famously used in "Anne of Green Gables", a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908::Her hair was pure gold rippling back from her alabaster brow.

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/246/1111.html Text of The Protestation]


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