Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a fair face.
- Double-faced; flatteringly deceptive; professing great love or kindness without reality.
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Examples
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Yet, when the time came, she proved herself capable of rising to the height of the fair-faced royal races and of renouncing in right regal fashion.
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Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, -- fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race.
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Already, over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses, were the harbingers of the steel arriving, — fair-faced, blue-eyed, indomitable men, incarnations of the unrest of their race.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.
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For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners ...
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For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.
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There should be more space in the collective consciousness devoted to fair-faced Demetrius.
things I still see, even after repeated viewing Megan Kurashige 2010
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Thereupon they made ready the séance of wassail; the fair-faced cup-companions came and the pure wine252 went round amongst them, till the cup came to the stranger, who rose to his feet and spake thus,
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Withal she had covered up the lovely shapeliness of her legs with long boots of deer-leather, and her surcoat was wide-sleeved; she was well hidden, and whereas she was a tall and strong woman, she might well pass for a young man, slender and fair-faced.
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Yet no one was able to persuade her mind and will, so wrath was she in her heart; but she stubbornly rejected all their words: for she vowed that she would never set foot on fragrant Olympus nor let fruit spring out of the ground, until she beheld with her eyes her own fair-faced daughter.
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