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Definition of Long-faced
1. Adjective. Having a face longer than the usual.
Definition of Long-faced
1. Adjective. Displaying sadness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Long-faced
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1. The Crime of Caste in Our Country: Americans Enforce Equality. No Sham by Benjamin Rush Davenport (1893)
"... Lee, by his courteous, kindly, and magnanimous behavior toward Lee and bis
vanquished legions whom Grant had so long faced and at last van- quished. ..."
2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"Certainly not; the short-faced fancier could see no beauty in it; the long-faced
fancier would swear there was no use in it, &c." In these comical passages, ..."
3. Poultry Culture Sanitation and Hygiene by Benjamin Franklyn Kaupp (1920)
"The English tumblers are divided into the long and short faced, although the
tendency of modern judges is to favor the long faced birds which tend toward ..."
4. Arboreal Man by Frederic Wood Jones (1916)
"In herbivorous animals the transition is very easily seen; the long-faced horse
may be contrasted (solely from the point of view of this function) with the ..."
5. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"long side (as of a table or house), side wall (of house). long-faced ...
be long-faced. long-lived ..."
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