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单词 old-faced
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old-facedadj.

Brit. /ˈəʊl(d)feɪst/, /ˌəʊl(d)ˈfeɪst/, U.S. /ˈoʊl(d)ˌfeɪst/, /ˌoʊl(d)ˈfeɪst/
Forms: see old adj. and faced adj.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: old adj., faced adj.1
Etymology: < old adj. + faced adj.1 With sense 2 compare slightly later old-face adj.
1. Chiefly literary. Having a face characteristic of age.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]
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
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 259 'Tis not the rounder of your old-fac'd walles, Can hide you from our messengers of Warre. View more context for this quotation
1665 in C. B. Gunn Bk. Cross Kirk, Peebles (1912) 191 An old-faced warlock's yet.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House l. 481 Caddy was now the mother, and I the godmother, of such a poor little baby—such a tiny old-faced mite.
1855 W. Whitman Song of Myself xxxiii, in Representative Selections (1934) 40 How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves, The silent old-faced infants and the lifted sick.
1916 L. Maude tr. L. Tolstoy Resurrection (1994) ii. x. 255 His mind was filled with thoughts of the peasants—..especially the strangely smiling, old-faced infant writhing its calfless little legs.
2000 M. Galvin in Poetry Mar. 315 I know enough I'd never try such guddle With my history classes of oldfaced high-schoolers Chewing on the lessons of the past.
2. Typography. In the style of old-face type. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [adjective] > others
modern1764
script1782
Caxtonian1811
Porsonian1813
antique type?1817
Aldine1837
Scotch1847
old-face1859
Times1860
old-faced1863
Fell type1883
Fournier1902
monotype1910
Goudy1933
monoline1962
slab serif1970
monospaced1972
1863 G. Unwin (title) Specimens of the old-faced series of type in use at the Gresham Steam-press.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson Weir of Hermiston (1896) vi. 109 The last of these was the psalm-book; it was a fine piece, the gift of Mistress Clem, in distinct old-faced type, on paper that had begun to grow foxy in the warehouse.
1904 Proc. Royal Soc. 73 208 The line between the groups in old-faced type shows the outstanding secondary dispersion when lenses of the two materials are combined.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 at Daniel, Charles Caslon's old-faced type had been revived by William Pickering..some thirty-six years earlier.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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