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horse-faced

American  
[hawrs-feyst] / ˈhɔrsˌfeɪst /

adjective

  1. having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.


Etymology

Origin of horse-faced

First recorded in 1665–75

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Steyn said that instead of responding to Warren's attacks, Bloomberg "stood there looking horse-faced himself, unable to respond to it."

From Fox News Feb. 20, 2020

"Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paul Y. Anderson called him "a horse-faced man with a squeaky voice."

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the few that the Spanish genius had time to do in his eternal task of grinding out fresh likenesses of his master, horse-faced Philip IV of Spain.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Is there a problem?” she says, looking from me to the horse-faced girl and then back again.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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