adj. phr. (common).—Shameless; impudent; unblushing; with a face as of brass: see BRASS: sometimes A FACE RUBBED WITH A BRASS CANDLE-STICK.
1571. GOLDING, Calvin on Psalm, xii., 5. With such BRAZENFASTE boldnesse.
1596. NASHE, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, in Wks. III., 84. Amidst his impudent BRAZEN-FAC’D defamation of Doctor Ferne.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BRAZEN-FAC’D, Bold, Impudent, Audacious.
1693. DRYDEN, Juvenal, III., 133. Quick-witted, BRAZEN-FAC’D, with fluent tongues.
1714. Memoirs of John Hall (4 ed.), 10. Thus with an unparallell’d Impudence every BRAZEN-FAC’D Malefactor is harden’d in his Sin.
1874. E. WOOD, Johnny Ludlow, 1 S., viii., 137. ‘Of all the impudent BRAZEN-FACED rascals that are cheating the gallows, you must be the worst.’
