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单词 angel face
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angel facen.

Brit. /ˈeɪn(d)ʒ(ə)l feɪs/, U.S. /ˈeɪndʒəl ˌfeɪs/
Forms: see angel n. and face n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: angel n., face n.
Etymology: < angel n. + face n. Compare slightly earlier angel-faced adj.
1. A face like that of an angel; a beautiful, sweet, or innocent face.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun]
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crab face1706
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pudding face1748
dough face1755
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frog-face1872
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. Fathers in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. 502 Mine only Isaac (whose sweet vertues passe The louely sweetnes of his Angell-face).
1687 Spencer Redivivus iii. 38 Her Angel-face Like Sun-shine did illuminate the place.
1828 L. Hunt Ld. Byron & Some Contemp. 512 The angel faces which you meet with in England,..some of which are perhaps even finer than any you see elsewhere.
1927 E. A. Parry Overbury Myst. 183 The King turned from the picture to the angel-face of the youth kneeling at his side.
2010 N. Barr Burn ix. 77 They were..besotted with their fairylike sister with her waist-length hair and angel face.
2. A person with a beautiful, sweet, or innocent face. Chiefly as a nickname or term of endearment. Sometimes also used ironically.
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society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > [noun] > person > term of address for
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1847 New Monthly Belle Assemblée Aug. 104/1 I'll sun myself in your bright smiles, My own loved Angel-face!
1885 L. Tinsley Blackwater Towers i. ii. 26/1 Little Angel-face, or Madoline, as I must now call her, completely settled the matter by..offering me her hand.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 6 Angel face, Air Force slang for any young, or boyish looking, Probationary Flight Officer.
1968 Times 30 Oct. 1/7 One of the recaptured prisoners..known as ‘Angel Face’..is serving a total of 17 years.
2011 N. D. Kennard Rivers of Eden p. ix The party will be over for them but not us, angel face.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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