open-faced
English
Adjective
open-faced (not comparable)
- (of a sandwich) Being a single slice of bread with a topping.
- Having an honest and sincere expression.
- 1878, The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany (page 75)
- Frank Broughton was a finely-grown, open-faced boy of thirteen, the eldest of a family of four, and to-morrow he was to be launched upon the unknown sea of public-school life.
- 2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House:
- There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed.
- 1878, The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany (page 75)