hatchet face

American  

noun

1. a thin face with sharp features.

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Other Word Forms

• hatchet-faced adjective

Etymology

Origin of hatchet face

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

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)

His hair was even a little thin on top—with that and his lean, hatchet face he might have been thirty-five.

From Mary Gray by Tynan, Katharine

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