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
Dio's hatchet face snarled at him in startled anger.
From A World is Born by Leigh Douglass Brackett
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 William MacLeod Raine
The next man of the Hartfords at the bat was the pitcher, Pink Wilson, a fellow almost as tall and lank as Dismal Jones, with a hatchet face and a corkscrew nose.
From Frank Merriwell's Reward by Burt L. Standish
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