Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having an aged look or appearance.

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Examples

  • His mind was filled with thoughts of the peasants, the women, children, old men, and all the poverty and weariness which he seemed to have seen for the first time, especially the smiling, old-faced infant writhing with his calfless little legs, and he could not help contrasting what was going on in the town.

    Resurrection 2003

  • An old-faced young woman in halter top and shorts stood near an unmarked door, leaning against the wall.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • An old-faced young woman in halter top and shorts stood near an unmarked door, leaning against the wall.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • An old-faced young woman in halter top and shorts stood near an unmarked door, leaning against the wall.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • Iva Dean turned away, hump-shouldered, old-faced, and tired; less alive she looked than Old John reading one of the many letters he had stacked under the lamp.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • No old-faced little boys in reefed man-trousers appealed to her sleeping pity.

    Gloria and Treeless Street Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • No old-faced little boys in reefed man-trousers appealed to her sleeping pity.

    Gloria and Treeless Street Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • No old-faced little boys in reefed man-trousers appealed to her sleeping pity.

    Gloria and Treeless Street Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • As he tramped around the square, he watched the light in the courthouse window, thinking of the account on his own books against the old-faced young man who labored there alone to hide his peculations for a little while longer.

    Trail's End George W. Ogden

  • It was an old-faced man who came out onto the veranda, where Waters was chewing his cigar angrily.

    Black Jack Max Brand 1918

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