† well-facedadj.
Obsolete.
Having an attractive or beautiful face; pretty. Also figurative.
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flatc1400
hardc1400
low-cheeredc1400
large?a1425
ruscledc1440
well-visagedc1440
platter-faced1533
well-faced1534
full-faced1543
fair-faced1553
bright-faceda1560
crab-faced1563
crab-snouted1563
crab-tree-faced1563
long-visaged1584
owlya1586
wainscot-faced1588
flaberkin1592
rough-hewn1593
angel-faced1594
round-faced1594
crab-favoured1596
rugged1596
weasel-faced1596
rough-faced1598
half-faced1600
chitty1601
lenten-faced1604
broad-faced1607
dog-faced1607
weaselled-faced1607
wry-faced1607
maid-faced1610
warp-faced1611
ill-faceda1616
lean-faceda1616
old-faceda1616
moon-faced1619
monkey-faced1620
chitty-face1622
chitty-faceda1627
lean-chapt1629
antic-faced1635
bloat-faced1638
bacon-facea1640
blue-faced1640
hatchet-faced1648
grave1650
lean-jawed1679
smock-faced1684
lean-visaged1686
flaber1687
baby-faced1692
splatter-faced1707
chubby1722
puggy1722
block-faced1751
haggard-looking1756
long-faced1762
haggardly1763
fresh-faced1766
dough-faced1773
pudding-faced1777
baby-featured1780
fat-faced1782
haggard1787
weazen-face1794
keen1798
ferret-like1801
lean-cheeked1812
mulberry-faced1812
open-faced1813
open-countenanced1819
chiselled1821
hatchety1821
misfeatured1822
terse1824
weazen-faced1824
mahogany-faced1825
clock-faced1827
sharp1832
sensual1833
beef-faced1838
weaselly1838
ferret-faced1840
sensuous1843
rat-faced1844
recedent1849
neat-faced1850
cherubimical1854
pinch-faced1859
cherubic1860
frownya1861
receding1866
weak1882
misfeaturing1885
platopic1885
platyopic1885
pro-opic1885
wind-splitting1890
falcon-face1891
blunt-featured1916
bun-faced1927
fish-faced1963
1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 41v He sawe that the mayde hadde a very good face, or, was verye welle faced or fulle of beaultie.
1553 R. Ascham Rep. Affaires Germany 29 He was now of the age of xxxii. yeares well faced.
1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 89 His whole delight is to haue a well faced boy in his company.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 2 Hee that hath any well-faced phancy in his Crowne.
1693 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence (ed. 2) Postscr. 102 A great Hantle of Bonnie braw well fac'd young Lasses.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4368/4 On the 15th Instant a pretty well Fac'd Boy..went away from School.
1841 E. Getty Last King Ulster I. xvii. 238 Thy daughter is a well-faced maiden.
1870 E. Jenkins Ginx's Baby iii. vi. 159 Your little pink-cheeked daughter, so clean and so cosy in her pretty cot, waking to see the well-faced nurse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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