lean-faced

[ leen-feyst ]

/ ˈlinˈfeɪst /

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adjective

having a thin, narrow face.

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Origin of lean-faced

First recorded in 1580–90

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I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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She was a plump-faced, insipid child, with fair hair and pale blue eyes, stolid and bovine in their expressionlessness.
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The latter is a square-faced practical man, who is looked up to as a species of oracle by all his friends.
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