[f. BOLD a. + FACE sb.] One who has a bold face; an impudent person; also attrib.

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1692.  R. L’Estrange, Fables (1703), I. cclxiii. 279. How now Bold-Face, crys an Old Trot.

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1741.  Richardson, Pamela, I. 43. If I have been a Sauce-box, and a Bold-face, and Pest, and a Creature, as he calls me.

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1793.  J. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Apple-dumplings, Wks. I. 100. A ragged, bold-face, ballad-singing crew.

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1859.  Dickens, T. Two Cities, III. ii. ‘Well, I am sure, Boldface! I hope you are pretty well!’

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