round-faced

[ round-feyst ]

adjective

1. having a face that is round.

Word History and Origins

Origin of round-faced¹

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

One of them who called to him was a girl, round-faced and wearing eyeglasses, who appeared to be in her late teens.

From The Daily Beast

There was a picture of Madame Lebrun with Robert as a baby, seated in her lap, a round-faced infant with a fist in his mouth.

From Project Gutenberg

A round-faced young woman peeps out of window; laughs at their words or at the romps of the children in the mounds of hay.

From Project Gutenberg

Maître Mule was a little round-faced man, forced by his physical inferiority to Populus to take out his valour by word of mouth.

From Project Gutenberg

Their order given to a round-faced, olive-tinted Italian girl, the Five Travelers were free to look about them for a little.

From Project Gutenberg

The round-faced man before me smiled thoughtfully as he idly puffed his cigarette.

From Project Gutenberg