half-faced

adj

half-faced

adj
1

Obsolete Showing only part of the face; wretched-looking.

  • But out vpon this halfe-fac'd Fellowship.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]:

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