moon-faced

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moon-faced (comparative more moon-faced, superlative most moon-faced)

  1. Having a round or moon-shaped face.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 233:
      The creased moon-faced Chinese grinned above his glass of beer[.]
    • 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83:
      "I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile."

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