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单词 to make face to
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to make face to
f. to make face to: to offer resistance to. Obsolete. [After French faire face à to confront in battle (1657 in faire face à l'ennemi), to stand firm in the face of (danger, events, etc.) (1798; 1671 in sense ‘to have the front turned towards’).]
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1807 J. Gillies Hist. World II. xxi. 375 He closed the rear, and made face to the enemy, sustaining their assault, until his horse fell under him.
1829 W. Irving Chron. Conq. Granada I. x. 91 The king and his commanders..made face to the Moors,..repelling all assaults.
1833 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 66 In conjunction with Fairfax, he [sc. Cromwell] made face to the superior force of Newcastle.
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