Obs. Also 5 faceet, facett, faucet. [ad. (through F. facet) L. facēt-us (see FACETE a.) used as a proper name.] The book Facetus de Moribus (by some attributed to John Garland), which was used in schools as a book of instruction in behavior.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 145. Faceet, booke … Facetus.

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c. 1475.  Babees Bk. (1868), 1.

        And Facett seythe the Book of curtesye,
Vertues to knowe, thaym forto haue and vse.

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a. 1483.  Liber Niger, in Househ. Ord., 45. He [the Dean of the Chappell] to drawe these chyldren, as well in the schoole of facett, as in songe, organes, or suche other veruous thinges.

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[1611.  Cotgr., Facet, a Primmer, or Grammer for a yong scholler.]

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