moon-faced

American  

[moon-feyst] / ˈmunˌfeɪst /

adjective

1. having a very round face, regarded as resembling a full moon.

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moon-faced British  

adjective

1. having a round face; full-faced

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Etymology

Origin of moon-faced

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

Imogene, who was moon-faced and not good-looking, worked her hands and opened her sheet music.

From Literature

The moon-faced Manning, a Time magazine cover star in October 2000, was widely regarded as a plucky music fan sticking it to greedy labels and out-of-touch millionaires.

From Los Angeles Times

After he teed off in 2003 on the Fox teenage drama “The O.C.” as a “moody, moon-faced trifle,” the show fired back with a hospital scene featuring a patient named Tom Shales, who is incontinent.

From New York Times

H-2 was a volatile, moon-faced man scarcely known outside the regional underworld.

From New York Times

And out popped a friendly moon-faced woman in black-framed glasses, the right one missing a chunk of lens.

From Los Angeles Times