Usage Note
Ceño denotes the frown or scowl itself — the expression of displeasure made by furrowing the brow — and is almost always encountered in the fixed phrase fruncir el ceño ('to frown', literally 'to wrinkle the brow'). Using ceño alone is understood but uncommon outside that phrase. It is a masculine noun.
Examples
"Frunció el ceño al leer la noticia."
Natural Translation
He frowned when he read the news.
Literal Translation
He-wrinkled the brow on-reading the news.

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