rubber-faced

[ ruhb-er-feyst ]

adjective
  1. having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.

Origin of rubber-faced

1
First recorded in 1960–65

Words Nearby rubber-faced

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How to use rubber-faced in a sentence

  • Within, soft rubber-faced cushions had interlocked; the body would fasten to the headpiece in the same way.

    The Finding of Haldgren | Charles Willard Diffin
  • The gun-captains muzzled the rubber-faced shoulder-pieces, and the long lean muzzles behind the shields shifted fractionally.

    A Fleet in Being | Rudyard Kipling
  • The tingling of the batsman's fingers which might result could be neutralised by the use of a rubber-faced bat.