bald-facedadj.
Having a bald face.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having particular kind of face > having a bald face
bald-faced1648
the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > streaked or marked with white > having a white head > having a white face > having white mark on face
bausondc1320
bald-faced1648
blazed1685
bauson-faced1829
1648 in Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 425 A Bawld-facd heighfer.
1677 London Gaz. No. 1237/4 A sorrel Mare..bald-faced, and but one eye.
1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 341 The nest of our bald-faced hornet is occasionally suspended in a house to kill off the house-flies.
1885 Cent. Mag. Nov. 60/2 He jogged along on his bald-faced bay in the bleak untempered light.
Draft additions March 2021
Originally: overt, unconcealed, obvious. In later use also: unabashed, impudent, shameless. Cf. barefaced adj.
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society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > [adjective]
openlyeOE
underna900
openeOE
utterly12..
unhida1300
perta1325
apert1330
nakeda1382
public1394
patenta1398
foreign?c1400
overtc1400
unrecovered1433
publicalc1450
open-visageda1513
bare1526
uncloaked1539
subject1556
uncovered1577
unmasked1590
facely1593
undisguised1598
female1602
unveiled1606
unshrouded1610
barefaceda1616
disclouded1615
unhiddena1616
broad-faced1643
with full miena1657
undissembled1671
frank1752
bald-faced1761
unconfidential1772
ostensible1782
unglossed1802
undisguising1813
unvisored1827
unconcealed1839
disprivacied1848
disguiseless1850
bald1854
unobscured1879
visible1885
open door1898
above ground1976
the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective] > shameless
shamelessc897
unshamefasta1100
unshamedc1384
unshamefulc1430
unshamousa1500
unshamefaceda1533
unshameless1555
blushless1566
brazen-faced1571
brazen1573
bashless1578
brassy1596
foreheaded16..
foreheadlessa1603
frontless1607
browless1615
basilisco-proof1649
inverecund1657
perfrict1660
brazen-broweda1682
barefaced1704
cool1723
unblushing1736
brassed1742
inerubescent1788
bald-faced1836
bronzed1841
brazen-fronted1842
brazed1884
1761 Gentleman's & London Mag. Feb. 80/1 Though they know his bald faced affinity [to you], yet his present station puts him one remove above being told so.
1826 N.Y. Lit. Gaz. 4 Mar. 411/1 By death alone The bald-faced miscreant can his crime atone.
1836 Vermont Patriot & State Gaz. 6 June Our modern aristocracy have the presumption, nay, the bald-faced impudence, to allege that the people have ever a propensity to sedition and plunder!
1929 E. Booth Stealing through Life ix. 215 You told me you was never in a reform school—you're just naturally a bald-faced liar!
1966 Financial Times 26 Sept. 5/7 What possible justification has it [sc. the Government] got for this bald-faced attempt to portray itself as without guilt for the latest disastrous turn in Britain's economic affairs?
2008 Copley News Service (Nexis) 4 Jan. A significant portion of the advertising..is exploitive, phony..and pure bald-faced tommyrot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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