Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. a swollen and rounded face, often indicative of a disease (Cushing's syndrome) or of a steroid side-effect.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A full round face — according to Oriental ideas, one of the principal features of beauty in a woman.
Etymologies
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Examples
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No more does his infernal laugh go echoing among the hills, and no more does his fat moon-face rise up to vex me.
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And his mouth opened wide and he grinned all over his damnable moon-face.
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He can still see it: two moon-faces upturned, full of fear, calling and calling, each moon-face painted red (then blue) in unison.
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He's not thin, she insists, but rather strapping, with a big, happy moon-face, and she's dug out some old family photographs to prove it.
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You shall have the moon-face for your wife — your second wife, that is; — the first shall be the incomparable Puttee Rooge, who loves you to madness; — with
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Clarissa turned, smiling, but the sight of Lily's cartoonish moon-face had an unexpected effect on her.
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The room was so narrow, and the bed was so small; and Mrs. Wragge, arrayed in the white apparel proper for the occasion, with her moon-face framed round by
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The moon-face of the giantess brightened for the first time.
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A wobbly (albeit obscenely large) grin on a shiny (dare we say radiant) moon-face perhaps?
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Little Mrs. Ashley, whose baby sat with its moon-face half covered by a cloud of white blanket, consoled Una by telling her the tale of "those dogs and that cat that went for hundreds of miles, or something, and finally got home."
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