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brazen-faced, a.|ˈbreɪz(ə)nfeɪst| In 6 also brazenfast. [f. prec. + -ed2.] With bold unblushing front, impudent, unabashed.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xii. 5 With such brazenfaste boldnesse. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. ii. 30 What a brazen-fac'd Varlet art thou to deny thou knowest me. 1619Pasquil's Palin. (1877) 142 Blush (if you can) and are not brazen⁓faced. 1677Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 82 Such open and brazen-faced assertions. 1846Sir R. de Coverley II. 182 The brazen-faced termagant. b. humorously, of things.
1864M. E. Braddon Doctor's Wife i. 5 A big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street. Hence ˈbrazen-facedly |-feɪstlɪ|, adv.
1624Gataker Transubst. 174 Onely boldly and brasin-facedly avouching that, etc. 1829Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXV. 384 She looked at you brazen-facedly. |