Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A round smooth face, suggesting a resemblance to a pippin.
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My weasened pippin-face of the malicious grin was one of them; a broad-shouldered, fair-faced and very much embarrassed young officer in the King's uniform stood beside him; and from the stairway some three steps up Aileen, plainly frightened, fronted them and answered questions in her broken English.
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912
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