a.
1. Having a broad face.
1607. W. N., Barley-Breake (1877), The broad-fac’d Owle.
1790. Boswell, Johnson (1811), III. 71. Loud obstreperous broad-faced mirth.
1882. J. Hawthorne, Fort. Fool, I. xv. A composed, broadfaced, straightforward old man.
† 2. fig. Undisguised, open. Obs.
1643. Myst. Iniq., 43. Such broadfaced iniquity, that no mask … would fit it.
1648. Jenkyn, Blind Guide, i. 12. Two broadfaced falsities.
1678. B. R., Let. Pop. Friends, 7. The Treason appears too broad-faced.
