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Latest revision as of 04:51, 4 February 2024
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]paper-faced (comparative more paper-faced, superlative most paper-faced)
- Having a face as white as paper.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
- thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain