ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED.] Having a bold or confident face or look; usually impudent. Hence Bold-facedness sb.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., IV. vi. 12. It warm’d thy Fathers heart with prowd desire Of bold-fac’t Victorie.
1635. Quarles, Embl., I. viii. (1658), 34. But bold-fac’d Mortals in our blushless times Can sing and smile, and make a sport of crimes.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxxiii. A fine, gay, bold-faced ruffian.
1832. L. Hunt, Transl., Poems 264. The least pain to thy bold-facedness.
