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
One of the brown French-governess-ladies with the hatchet face got out, and unloaded three kids: two boys and a girl.
From Michael O'Halloran by Stratton-Porter, Gene
His hatchet face wore an evil expression which, melting away, gave place to beaming looks when he perceived before him his hated enemy.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
He was a little bald man, with a hatchet face that did not suggest emotion.
From The Woman with the Fan by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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