a. Obs. [f. SNOUT sb.1 Cf. MSw. snutofagher, Sw. snutfager.] Having a fair countenance; fair-faced, comely, handsome.
Freq. in 16th and early 17th cent., usually with some disparaging suggestion.
1530. Tindale, Pract. Prelates, F ij. If he come in to an house, & the wiff be snoutefayre he will rote him self there.
1598. Bp. Hall, Sat., IV. i. 111/9.
| Who list excuse? when chaster dames can hyre, | |
| Some snout-fayre stripling to their Apple-squire. |
1616. R. C., Times’ Whistle (1871), 34. I knowe a snowt-faire, selfe-conceited asse.
1649. Quarles, Virgin Widow, I. True, She’s snout faire; yet by her favour I Would scarce turn tables with her, though I say’t.
