Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a face round like an apple.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a round, broad face, like an apple.
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Examples
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The apple-faced Mr. Strong was born in 1929 in rural Canada.
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He was a white-haired, apple-faced old boy, with sleepy eyes and
The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003
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A little, apple-faced, shrivelled-looking man was waiting for them.
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Kenny's old peasant in wrinkled apple-faced cheer smiled broadly from the wall, listening to the click of billiard balls with his painted eyes upon the doorway.
Kenny Leona Dalrymple
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An apple-faced old woman received me at the door, and hospitably invited me to wait within for Mr. Austyn's return from morning service, which I did, while the carriage, with the little boys and Tip in it, drove up and down before the door.
Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer
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Julia saw her little old grandmother, in an outrageous flowered bonnet, and Evelyn who was a most successful modiste now, and Marguerite, looking flushed and excited, with her fat, apple-faced young husband, and three lumpy little children.
The Story of Julia Page Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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Mandy gasped, as she stood panting for breath and blinking at the pretty, young, apple-faced Julia; "I was suah most gone dat time."
Polly of the Circus Margaret Mayo 1916
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A stout, apple-faced woman opened it, looking a shade nervous.
T. Tembarom 1913
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Mandy gasped, as she stood panting for breath and blinking at the pretty, young, apple-faced Julia; ` ` I was suah most gone dat time. ''
Polly of the Circus 1908
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Toodle being the family name of the apple-faced family.
Euphony. 1908
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