Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a pale face; pallid.
- adj. Having a white face or a white patch extending from the muzzle to the forehead: a white-faced antelope; white-faced cattle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a white or pale face, as from fear or illness.
- Having a white front or surface.
- Marked with white on the front of the head, as a bird or other animal
- The blue-winged teal. See cut under teal
Examples
“He was sitting on the couch, white-faced, one sea-boot in his hands, and I could have sworn his hands were shaking.”
“People slipped by silently, furtively, like ghosts -- white-faced women carrying infants in their arms; fathers leading children by the hand; singly, and in couples, and in families-all fleeing out of the city of death.”
“At half after five I went below to set the cabin table, but I hardly knew what I did, for my eyes and my brain were filled with the vision of a man, white-faced and trembling, comically like a bug, clinging to the thrashing gaff.”
“Genevieve watched their excited efforts, while she listened to the white-faced second cautioning Joe.”
“But she, white-faced and trembling, resolutely shook her head and watched the fray with all her eyes.”
“Captain Dettmar, white-faced, smiling only when his employer chanced to glance at him, leaned against the wheel-box, looking on.”
“Izzy was the product of a lesbian divorce," Colleen says of a white-faced capuchin monkey named Isadora.”
The Washington Post: Can a Howard woman keep a bunch of monkeys in her house?
“I suffered in silence through Bella's sullen rudeness to every person in the entire town of Forks, but when white-faced Dr. Cullen came on, played by Dr. "Coop" Cooper from Nurse Jackie, I almost broke a rib laughing so hard.”
“The next picture is of Mark's white-faced schoolfriends carrying his coffin.”
The Guardian: Teenage football fan stands up to Scotland's sectarian thugs
“ I have a memory of him, white-faced, slight and thin as we all were in those more austere times, furious, standing up to some bully or other in the playground of a school.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘white-faced’.
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FUN - fish can be...
Compound adjectives - based on the FAO ASFIS list of waterborne species.
U-mark, U-spot, X-ray, Y-prickleback, ox-eyed, arc-eye, big-claw, big-eye, big-eyed, big-head, big-lip, big-scale and 509 more...
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white phrase/words
how white is used
white acajou, white admiral, White Africa, white ale, white-aproned, white-armed, White Army, white-arsed, white ash, white-ash breeze, White Australia, white-back and 591 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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