open-faced

adj — 2 senses

open-faced

adj
1

Usually, Of a sandwich Being a single slice of bread with a topping.

2

Having an honest and sincere expression.

  • 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.1878, The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany, page 75:
  • 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.2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House:

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