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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of good face or aspect.

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Examples

  • I thought that my virtual obsession with him was well-faced, and I was full of regret that I didn't get him.

    CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2002 2002

  • Old Carey was a cheerful, broad-minded bushman, haunted at times by the memories of old days, when he was the beau of the bush balls, and so when he built his new slab-and-bark barn he had it properly floored with hard-wood, and the floor well-faced "to give the young people a show when they wanted a dance," he said.

    Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

  • When you, good matron, look at your little pink-cheeked daughter, so clean and so cosy in her pretty cot, waking to see the well-faced nurse, or you, still sweeter to her eyes, watching above her dreams, perhaps you ought to stop a moment to contrast the scene with the sad tableaux you may get sight of not far away.

    Ginx's Baby. His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire 1871

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