• Baby-face

    Full definition of baby-face

    Noun

    baby-face

    (plural baby-faces)
    1. Alternative form of en
      • 1769, Henry Brooke, w Chapter XVII Three Estates in Parliament., The jolly, broad, fooliÅ¿h, humorous, half-laughing, half-crying, baby-face of the Major extorted peals of laughter from all who were preÅ¿ent.
      • Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited|poem=The Redbreast|page=286|passage=Say that the Cherubs carved in stone,
        ...
        Used to sing in heavenly tone,
        Above and round the sacred places
        They guard, with wingèd baby-faces.
      • 1849, John Oxenford, Sir Wigolais of the Wheel, Now Sir Wigolais was not only very young, but extremely young-looking; he had one of those baby-faces that obstinately refused to look manly at any age, and a chin that seemed destined never to wear a beard.
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