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bare-faced

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Etymology

Perhaps an alteration of barefast (compare shamefast); or from bare +‎ faced.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bare-faced (comparative more bare-faced, superlative most bare-faced)

  1. Alternative form of barefaced.
    • 1680 September 12 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Gilbert Burnet, A Sermon Preached before the Right-honourable the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, at Bow-Church, September 2. 1680. being the Anniversary Fast for the Burning of London, London: […] Richard Chiswel, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 5:
      And they vvere become ſo bare-faced and impudent in their Vices, that good and prudent Men thought fit to keep ſilence in that Time, becauſe it vvas an evil Time.

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