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red-faced, a.
Having a red face. Also transf.
1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 369 He was somewhat giuen to be redfaced. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. ii. 34 For Bardolph, hee is white-liuer'd, and red-fac'd. 1712–13J. Tillard in Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) IV. 81 Y⊇ most red-faced Topers in either university. 1727Boyer Dict. Royal I, Rougeaud,..a red-faced or ruddy complexion'd Man or Woman. 1829B. Hall Travels I. 349 A village of birch⁓bark wigwams, thinly inhabited by a dirty set of red-faced inhabitants. 1847Tennyson Princ. v. 114 But red-faced war has rods of steel and fire. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 197 The red-faced man whom I had met on the road to Sandia.
b. In names of birds, etc.
1784Pennant Arct. Zool. II. 584 Red-faced Corvorant. 1816Shaw Gen. Zool. IX. ii. 448 Red-faced Finch (Fringilla afra). 1817Ibid. X. ii. 340 The Red-faced Flycatcher is found in Siberia. 1882Proc. Zool. Soc. App. 798 Red-faced Saki (Brachyurus rubicundus). |