hatchet face
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of hatchet face
First recorded in 1640–50
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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 man's coffee-brown, hatchet face, his restless, black eyes, the high, narrow shoulders, the slope of nose and chin, combined somehow to give him the look of a wily and predacious wolf.
From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine
"You'll grin on the other side of your hatchet face, fellow, when we do show you," said Gus.
From Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio by Wayne Whipple
The artist—he was an extraordinarily tall young man, with a keen hatchet face, restless brown eyes, and straight auburn hair parted accurately in the middle—considered for a moment, then nodded.
From True Tilda by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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