half-faced
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Englisch
[edit]Adjective
[edit]half-faced (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Showing only part of the face; wretched-looking.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- But out vpon this halfe-fac'd Fellowship.
References
[edit]- “half-faced”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.