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Definition of Moonfaced
1. a. Having a round, full face.
Definition of Moonfaced
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of moon-faced) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moonfaced
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonfaced
Literary usage of Moonfaced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Far Country by Winston Churchill (1915)
"... seated within easy reach of the gaily coloured cuspidors that protected the
marble floor: heavy-jawed workers from the cities mingled with moonfaced but ..."
2. From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling (1907)
"A moonfaced trooper of German extraction — never was Park so carefully patrolled —
came up to inform ue ... said I. The moonfaced one's face began to work. ..."
3. Rochester and Charles Dickens by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1903)
"'l —and he certainly attaches the'; moonfaced clock" to the former, whereas it
really belongs to the latter. It is surprising, however, why he should have ..."
4. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1897)
"... long-lived one' would be cruelty in the circumstances, ' fortunate one' would
be mockery in her present plight, ' moonfaced' would be an improper idea ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"The tea-pot being hopelessly deluged with tepid water, and'the table-cloth well
littered with crumbs, Albert sauntered in, moonfaced, pallid, and bald, ..."
6. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"... turned out to be as moonfaced and weak a clock as a man's eyes ever saw; and
how, in its town-hall, which had appeared to him once so glorious a ..."
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