Any person, usually an elderly individual, whose facial creases create the shape of parenthesis on either side of their lips.
These "parenthesis" run from the base of one'
s nostrils to the chin line, placing one'
s mouth within a set of parentheses.
It is a very unattractive feature, and usually causes one to appear puppet-like, with the chin and lower lip creating the lower part of a puppet'
s mouth.
Usually obnoxious, rude, obtrusively religious ex-English, now-substitute (sometimes
single-
school exclusive) teachers possess such a trait.
That parenthesis face really
said "God bless you and save you" when I sneezed!
I can't
believe she doesn't know how to look through her
glasses instead of over them!