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
He had a hatchet face and a receding chin, and he gazed at Jill through what she assumed were the "tortoise-shell cheaters" referred to by her recent acquaintance, Mr. Brown.
From Jill the Reckless by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Maestro Guglielmi puts in his hatchet face and glaring teeth.
From The Italians by Elliot, Frances
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 Raine, William MacLeod
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