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English
Noun
baby-face (plural baby-faces)
- Alternative form of baby face
1769, [Henry] Brooke, “XVII ”, in The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland, volume IV, London: W. Johnston, , →OCLC, page 237:[T]he jolly, broad, fooliſh, humorous, half-laughing, half-crying, baby-face of the Major extorted peals of laughter from all who were preſent.
1834, William Wordsworth, “The Redbreast. (Suggested in a Westmoreland Cottage.)”, in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, ; and Edward Moxon, , published 1835, →OCLC, page 286: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 March, John Oxenford, “Sir Wigolais of the Wheel”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXXXV, number CCCXXXIX, London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, chapter I (How Sir Wigolais set out for Corotin, Accompanied by a Sulky Damsel), page 315: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.