Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of whitefaced.
Angela, who had been sleeping in the alcove with the infant Rodrigo, looked white-faced at the bleeding man, whose lips were already turning blue.
1977, Genevieve Davis, chapter 28, in A Passion in the Blood, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 2702 more examples
I never see a shivering, white-faced wretch in the prisoners’ dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburg, on the night of September ninth, last.
1909, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “I Go to Pittsburg”, in The Man in Lower Ten, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 1As Sara watched, disbelieving, a slow moan escaped his lips and he thudded to the ground. Silhouetted against the hard blue sky stood Selena, swaying as she looked white-faced at the man at her feet.
1989, Mandy Rice Davies, chapter 19, in The Scarlet Thread, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 277
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