adj. (old).—Mortified; melancholy; ‘sour-featured’ (Scott).
1592. JOHN DAY, The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green, Act iii., Sc. 2, p. 57. Can. No, you FRIDAY-FAC’D frying-pan, it was to save us all from whipping or a worse shame.
1606. Wily Beguiled [HAWKINS, The Origin of the English Drama, iii. 356]. Marry, out upon him: What a FRIDAY-FAC’D slave it is! I think in my conscience, his face never keeps holiday.
