| 释义 |
ˈhard-featured, a.
[See hard a. 13.]
Having hard, harsh, or unpleasing features.
1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xlix. (1804) 338 A tall raw-boned man with a hard-featured countenance. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 94/1 The old hard-featured man..is a county Member. 1874Motley Barneveld II. xxiii. 424 A hard-featured but commanding and not uncomely woman.
Hence hardˈfeaturedness.
1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xix. §22 That absence of perception of the Beautiful, which introduced a general hardfeaturedness of figure into all German and Flemish early art. |