The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lean-faced
Lean-faced \Lean"-faced`\, a.
Having a thin face.
(Typog.) slender or narrow; -- said of type the letters of which have thin lines, or are unusually narrow in proportion to their height.
--W. Savage.
Usage examples of "lean-faced".
But at the doorway stood a figure that Landry recognised at once--a small man, lean-faced, trimly dressed, his clean-shaven lips pursed like the mouth of a shut money bag, imperturbable as ever, cold, unexcited--Calvin Crookes himself.
A lean-faced fiftysomething who might be wearing a beard or might not?