open-faced

Adjective

open-faced (not comparable)

1. (usually) Being 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

   Synonyms:

   open, open-face

2. Having 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 75
   • 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