subs. (old).—A gloomy, dejected-looking man or woman. [Probably from Friday being, ecclesiastically, the banyan day of the week.] Fr., figure de carême.
1592. GREENE, Groatsworth of Wit, in wks. xii., 120. The Foxe made a FRIDAY-FACE, counterfeiting sorrow.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1889. Gentleman’s Magazine, June, p. 593. FRIDAY-FACE is a term still occasionally applied to a sour-visaged person; it was formerly in very common use.
