Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective resembling the moon in shape.
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- adjective resembling the moon in shape
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Examples
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The springy floor boasted flat white flowers, spread out on the surface of the moss, which opened their five moon-round petals to the false moon above and gave forth an intoxicating perfume when they were trod upon.
Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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Nkosi, they are on the front veranda Joseph had the typical moon-round face of the Zulu, when he smiled his teeth were big and white against the black of his skin.
When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964
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A kind, rubicund, moon-round face, full of large blue eyes smiling a gentle and kindly welcome ... if the face of Shelley's father, plump and methodic-oracular, could have been joined to the wild, shining ecstasy of Shelley's countenance itself -- you would have had Mackworth's face before its time.
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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Thy owl, his muffled swiftness, moon-round eyes, and intoned hooting;
The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864
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A kind, rubicund, moon-round face, full of large blue eyes smiling a gentle and kindly welcome ... if the face of Shelley's father, plump and methodic-oracular, could have been joined to the wild, shining ecstasy of Shelley's countenance itself ” you would have had Mackworth's face before its time.
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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