a. In 6 also brazenfast. [f. prec. + -ED2.] With bold unblushing front, impudent, unabashed.

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1571.  Golding, Calvin on Ps. xii. 5. With such brazenfaste boldnesse.

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1605.  Shaks., Lear, II. ii. 30. What a brazen-fac’d Varlet art thou to deny thou knowest me.

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1619.  Pasquil’s Palin. (1877), 142. Blush (if you can) and are not brazen-faced.

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1677.  Gilpin, Dæmonol. (1867), 82. Such open and brazen-faced assertions.

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1846.  Sir R. de Coverley, 182. The brazen-faced termagant.

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  b.  humorously, of things.

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1864.  Miss Braddon, Doctor’s Wife, i. 5. A big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street.

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  Hence Brazen-facedly adv.

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1624.  Gataker, Transubst., 174. Onely boldly and brasen facedly auouching that [etc.].

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1829.  Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXV. 384. She looked at you brazen-facedly.

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