hatchet face

American  

noun

1. a thin face with sharp features.

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Other Word Forms

• hatchet-faced
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of hatchet face

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

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hatchet face

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

Dio's hatchet face snarled at him in startled anger.

From A World is Born by Brackett, Leigh Douglass

This man who aspired to be chancellor, and as such to direct the Privy Council, was dark, of middle height, with a sharp hatchet face and oblique cast of eye.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

"She's been most kind, sir, most attentive, she have," said the postman warmly, his long hatchet face breaking into animation.

From The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.