a. In 6 also brazenfast. [f. prec. + -ED2.] With bold unblushing front, impudent, unabashed.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xii. 5. With such brazenfaste boldnesse.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. ii. 30. What a brazen-facd Varlet art thou to deny thou knowest me.
1619. Pasquils Palin. (1877), 142. Blush (if you can) and are not brazen-faced.
1677. Gilpin, Dæmonol. (1867), 82. Such open and brazen-faced assertions.
1846. Sir R. de Coverley, 182. The brazen-faced termagant.
b. humorously, of things.
1864. Miss Braddon, Doctors Wife, i. 5. A big, new, brazen-faced house in the middle of the queer old High Street.
Hence Brazen-facedly adv.
1624. Gataker, Transubst., 174. Onely boldly and brasen facedly auouching that [etc.].
1829. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXV. 384. She looked at you brazen-facedly.