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Break from the Grind October 28, 2019
TRIVIAL PURSUITS: From Where Does the Term ‘Highbrow’ Come
Something or someone considered to be highly cultured or intellectual may be called “highbrow.”
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From where did the term “highbrow” come?
The terms “highbrow” and “lowbrow” come from phrenology, the nineteenth-century science of regarding the shape of the skull as a key to intelligence. A “high” forehead meant intelligence; a “low” one—not so much.
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