grey-facedgray-facedadj.

Brit.

/ˈɡreɪˌfeɪst/, U.S.

/ˈɡreɪˌfeɪst/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., faced adj.¹

Etymology: < grey adj. + faced adj.¹

That has a grey face.In quot. 1651 in figurative context: clouded over, overcast.

ΚΠ

1651 J. Howell Vision 174 The golden Orientall gate Of gray-fac'd Heaven 'gan to open fair.

1771 G. Culley Jrnl. 9 July in M. Culley & G. Culley Trav. Jrnls. & Lett. (2002) 75 They are all grey faced..as the long wooled or Lincolnshire sheep.

1829 M. Howitt Lays of Seasons in Friendship's Offering 91 The grey-faced mountain-sheep.

1899 R. Bridges Idle Flowers in Poet. Wks. II. 269 Blue-eyed Veronicas And grey-faced Scabious.

1931 Rotarian Sept. 12 A grey-faced man leaned anxiously across the desk. There were no jobs.

1992 Free China Rev. May 61/3 (caption) The gray-faced buzzard eagle suffers from its popularity both as food and as a stuffed trophy.

2005 G. R. R. Martin Feast for Crows 103 Though only seventeen, he might have passed for seventy; grey-faced, gaunt, with hollow cheeks, sunken eyes, and hair as white and brittle as chalk.

Compounds

grey-faced petrel n. a great-winged petrel of the New Zealand subspecies Pterodroma macroptera gouldi, which has a pale grey area near the bill.

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1871 F. W. Hutton Catal. Birds N.Z. 47 Procellaria gouldi... Grey-faced Petrel.

1904 F. W. Hutton & J. Drummond Animals N.Z. 245 The Grey-faced Petrel... At sea this bird is solitary and wild, never coming near a vessel.

2001 N.Z. Jrnl. Zool. 28 1 Feral cats..contributed to the total extinction of the Little Barrier snipe..and the severe reduction in numbers of grey-faced petrel.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grey-faced
释义	grey-facedgray-facedadj. Brit. /ˈɡreɪˌfeɪst/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪˌfeɪst/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., faced adj.¹ Etymology: < grey adj. + faced adj.¹ That has a grey face.In quot. 1651 in figurative context: clouded over, overcast. ΚΠ 1651 J. Howell Vision 174 The golden Orientall gate Of gray-fac'd Heaven 'gan to open fair. 1771 G. Culley Jrnl. 9 July in M. Culley & G. Culley Trav. Jrnls. & Lett. (2002) 75 They are all grey faced..as the long wooled or Lincolnshire sheep. 1829 M. Howitt Lays of Seasons in Friendship's Offering 91 The grey-faced mountain-sheep. 1899 R. Bridges Idle Flowers in Poet. Wks. II. 269 Blue-eyed Veronicas And grey-faced Scabious. 1931 Rotarian Sept. 12 A grey-faced man leaned anxiously across the desk. There were no jobs. 1992 Free China Rev. May 61/3 (caption) The gray-faced buzzard eagle suffers from its popularity both as food and as a stuffed trophy. 2005 G. R. R. Martin Feast for Crows 103 Though only seventeen, he might have passed for seventy; grey-faced, gaunt, with hollow cheeks, sunken eyes, and hair as white and brittle as chalk. Compounds grey-faced petrel n. a great-winged petrel of the New Zealand subspecies Pterodroma macroptera gouldi, which has a pale grey area near the bill. ΚΠ 1871 F. W. Hutton Catal. Birds N.Z. 47 Procellaria gouldi... Grey-faced Petrel. 1904 F. W. Hutton & J. Drummond Animals N.Z. 245 The Grey-faced Petrel... At sea this bird is solitary and wild, never coming near a vessel. 2001 N.Z. Jrnl. Zool. 28 1 Feral cats..contributed to the total extinction of the Little Barrier snipe..and the severe reduction in numbers of grey-faced petrel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1651
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