Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A full round face — according to Oriental ideas, one of the principal features of beauty in a woman.

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  • noun medicine a swollen and rounded face, often indicative of a disease (Cushing's syndrome) or of a steroid side-effect.

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Examples

  • No more does his infernal laugh go echoing among the hills, and no more does his fat moon-face rise up to vex me.

    MOON-FACE 2010

  • And his mouth opened wide and he grinned all over his damnable moon-face.

    MOON-FACE 2010

  • He can still see it: two moon-faces upturned, full of fear, calling and calling, each moon-face painted red (then blue) in unison.

    Hotel Chelsea 2010

  • 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.

    Eric & Us: The Postscript 2007

  • 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

    Burlesques 2006

  • Clarissa turned, smiling, but the sight of Lily's cartoonish moon-face had an unexpected effect on her.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • The moon-face of the giantess brightened for the first time.

    No Name 2003

  • 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

    No Name 2003

  • A wobbly (albeit obscenely large) grin on a shiny (dare we say radiant) moon-face perhaps?

    26 Ramadhan 1423H naddywoman 2001

  • 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."

    the deer leap Grimes, Martha 1985

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