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  • noun Plural form of facer.

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Examples

  • I was confronting the terror that a commoner, a mere Times New Roman shlepper who rejoices when the 2/3 train arrives as she's descending the stairs -- might crash the precincts of the bold-facers and le tout New York.

    Tribeca 2010: Notes From Under the Red Carpet 2010

  • I seriously thought the ghost facers team was about to burst into the hotel.

    Supernatural: Hammer of the Gods - Pink Raygun.com 2010

  • I was confronting the terror that a commoner, a mere Times New Roman shlepper who rejoices when the 2/3 train arrives as she's descending the stairs -- might crash the precincts of the bold-facers and le tout New York.

    Erica Abeel: Tribeca 2010: Notes From Under the Red Carpet 2010

  • As a people, at least in the ideal we uphold for ourselves and expect in our standard-bearers, we are the can-doers, the stop-at-nothings, the smiley-facers, the little engines that can.

    Todd Gitlin: Ways to Go 2008

  • There have been times when I have administered a succession of facers to them; there have been times when they have been too many for me, and I have given in, and said to Mrs. Micawber, in the words of Cato,

    David Copperfield 2007

  • The Daily Mail created this quiz to see if you could ID the bald bold facers below.

    Female Celebs Get Shaved! | Best Week Ever 2007

  • Mr. Wiatt, who was accompanied by Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the National Hockey League, did the usual Michael's move: Within eyeshot of bold-facers like Tina Brown and Dominick Dunne, he sidled up to glad-hand his onetime mentor.

    Off the Record 2003

  • To convince the Baron here, that there's maybe more in the Noble Art than meets his eye, I'll engage to stand up in front of him, with my hands down, and let him try to plant me a few facers.

    Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

  • There have been times when I have administered a succession of facers to them; there have been times when they have been too many for me, and I have given in, and said to Mrs. Micawber in the words of Cato, ‘Plato, thou reasonest well.

    XVII. Somebody Turns Up 1917

  • The [= A] k [= a] çamukhas, 'Sky-facers,' hold their faces toward the sky till the muscles stiffen, and they live thus always.

    The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

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