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character head

character head noun: an artwork depicting a person's head with a distinct, sometimes grotesque facial expression.

Noun

character head (plural character heads)

  1. An artwork depicting a person's head with a distinct, sometimes grotesque facial expression.
    • But for some unaccountable reason the canvas which clings most vividly to the visitor's memory was a character head of a Russian peasant. Such a sympathetic rendition of a picturesque character! Such color! And such an unconscious abandon of handling!1895, The Art Interchange, volume 34, page 46

Forms of character head

pluralcharacter heads

Questions about character head

What does character head mean?
Character head means an artwork depicting a person's head with a distinct, sometimes grotesque facial expression.
What part of speech is character head?
Character head is a noun.
What is the plural of character head?
The plural of character head is character heads.

Words near character head in the dictionary

  1. character disorders
  2. character encoding
  3. character encodings
  4. character generator
  5. character generators
  6. character head
  7. character heads
  8. character man
  9. character map
  10. character maps
  11. character men

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