Meanings of receding forehead in English

Mtarika came at last; a big ugly man, with large mouth and receding forehead.

One, a small man with a receding forehead and a weak chin, was doing the talking.

President du Ronceret was a tall, spare man with a receding forehead and scanty, auburn hair.

They show that the receding forehead was a natural characteristic of the ancient people of Central America.

He was faultily shaped; there was something a little decadent about his deep-set eyes and receding forehead.

Now that the light fell on his face she noted that he had a low, receding forehead.

The fourth was extraordinarily heavily built, with well-developed muscles, a low receding forehead and a flat nose.

Pale saffron hair surmounted a receding forehead.

He had a receding forehead and a strong, pointed chin; but benevolence was in the curve of his great nose.

I imagined the low, receding forehead and the pink-nailed, fleshy hands to belong to a new Solon, a latter-day Æneas.

You can see it is Ethiopian from the receding forehead, the high cheek- bones, the heavy under-jaw and strong teeth.

He has little or no perceptible throat, and a low receding forehead, not at all the ideal of a sage's.

He had a high-bridged nose, a black eye that held an inquiring sternness, a chin indented, and a receding forehead.

Her hanging cheeks, her receding forehead, and her thin lips, imparted an alarming expression of wickedness and cunning to her countenance.

The man was tall and meagre, with a receding forehead and a sandy complexion that should have been freckled, but was not.

Like others of the same type since discovered at Spy, it is singularly simian in character-low-arched ,withreceding forehead and enormous, protuberant eyebrows.