hatchet face
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of hatchet face
First recorded in 1640–50
Example Sentences
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He was a frail, tuberculous stalk of a fellow with a hatchet face crowned on a high dome with an inverted bowl of reddish hair cut in bangs.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Toni-eeeeee...” hoof beats clattered on the concrete and the hatchet face of the Kid passed me by.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
The Sherlock Holmes of fiction is a gaunt figure, with a hatchet face, spare of flesh.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
The restless black eyes in the dark hatchet face were sunk deeper now than in the old days.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod
He wasn't good-looking himself—a tall gaunt man of twenty-eight, with a dark hatchet face and perpetually-rumpled clothes.
From Sentiment, Inc. by Anderson, Poul William
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