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freckle-faced

[ frek-uhl-feyst ]

adjective

  1. having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of freckle-faced1

First recorded in 1680–90

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Example Sentences

Snapshots are used to create a nostalgic, authentic feel, opening with Galon as a freckle-faced girl out of Huck Finn.

But it was quite plain that the freckle-faced girl had nobody to care much for her, or about her.

But Jessie Norwood, her attention drawn to the freckle-faced child who stood there so composedly, motioned Burd to halt.

The freckle-faced girl began systematically to fill up the hollow with which she was accredited.

The freckle-faced boy, sitting on his pony with easy confidence, answered his companion's questions absently.

When the freckle-faced boy took his unexpected plunge, it chanced that neither cowboys nor Pony Riders were looking his way.

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