The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hard-visaged
Hard-visaged \Hard"-vis`aged\ (h[aum]rd"v[i^]z`[asl]jd; 48), a.
Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
--Burke.
Usage examples of "hard-visaged".
He might now be one of the hard-visaged instructors Kana had known for more than half his short life.
I shall always remember that tall, hard-visaged woman, as she passed with firm step and nobly balanced figure about the streets of Catanzaro.
Yet the feeling of joy was repressed by the remembrance, that life was all that remained to them, and that poverty and obscurity were to be the hard-visaged nurses of their declining years, the harsh tutors of the young and aspiring Castruccio.