paper-faced

adjective

Having a face as white as paper.

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Meanings

adjectivepaper-faced (comparative more paper-faced, superlative most paper-faced)

comparative more paper-faced · superlative most paper-faced

  1. Having a face as white as paper.

    thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain

    c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]
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