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redfaced

redfaced

See also: red-faced

English

Adjective

redfaced (comparative more redfaced, superlative most redfaced)

  1. Alternative spelling of red-faced
    • 1856, Charles Dickens, Household Words, Volume 13, page 553:
      I had scarcely fallen into my most promising attitude, and dipped my pen in the ink, when I found the clock upon the pier—a redfaced clock with a white rim—importuning me in a highly vexatious manner to consult my watch, and see how I was off for Greenwich time.