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
She was middle-aged, with a weary, hatchet face, and eyes from which looked a crushed spirit.
From The Golden Silence by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
He came across in the Pullman with me from Omaha; middle-aged, tall, and slim, with a hatchet face and owlish eyes.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis
He was a lanky, loose-jointed youth of twenty, with a long hatchet face.
From The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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