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fair-faced, a.
1. a. Having a fair or light-coloured complexion. b. Of beautiful countenance.
The two senses are in many early examples not easy to distinguish.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. ii. 68 (Qo.) Here is the babe as loathsome as a toade, Amongst the fairefast [ed. 1623 fairest] breeders of our clime. 1607Rowlands Famous Hist. 56 The beauteous fair-fac'd Bride. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2512/4 He is a low well set Man, fair faced. 1795Fate of Sedley I. 130 A fair-faced son of an Eastern Sultan. 1864J. Forster Life Sir J. Eliot I. 28 The fair-faced fiend..had received her sentence on the previous day.
2. Having a fair appearance (see face n. 8), pretty; fair to the eye only, specious.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 417, I shall shew you peace, and faire-fac'd league. 1616Hayward Sanct. Troub. Soul i. (1620) 9 The faire-faced shewes of the world. 1693Congreve Double-Dealer ii. viii, Tis such a pleasure to angle for fair-faced fools!
3. Of brickwork or stonework: not plastered.
1948Archit. Rev. CIV. 132 (caption) The walls are of fair-faced brickwork, distempered. 1958Ibid. CXXIII. 131 The offices are of r.c. construction with brick infill, with columns slate-faced and the edge beams fairfaced. 1970Interior Design Dec. 775/1 An industrial standard of finish has been adopted with fair-faced brick partitions, exposed concrete, and granolithic floor. 1971Country Life 30 Sept. 848/1 In the Tweed valley the walls are beautifully built in ‘fair-faced’ hand-split blue whinstone. |