Meanings
- not comparableusuallyBeing a single slice of bread with a topping.
Growing up in a largely brunchless society, my family’s Sunday ritual involved topping each bagel half with cream cheese and smoked salmon, or chopped liver, or egg and onion, and arranging them open-faced on big plates so everyone could take what they wanted, with a fish ball on the side.
2022, Laura Goodman, “A schmear campaign”, in The Joy of Snacks […], London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN - not comparableHaving an honest and sincere expression.
Frank Broughton was a finely-grown, open-faced boy of thirteen, the eldest of a family of four, and to-morrow he was to be launched upon the unknown sea of public-school life.
1878, The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany, page 751 more example
There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed.
2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House
Synonyms & antonyms
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