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paper-faced

paper-faced adjective: having a face as white as paper.

Adjective

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 villainc. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...

Forms of paper-faced

comparativemore paper-faced
superlativemost paper-faced

Questions about paper-faced

What does paper-faced mean?
Paper-faced means having a face as white as paper.
What part of speech is paper-faced?
Paper-faced is an adjective.

Words near paper-faced in the dictionary

  1. paper-bound
  2. paper-chase
  3. paper-chases
  4. paper-clay
  5. paper-cloth
  6. paper-faced
  7. paper-folder
  8. paper-folders
  9. paper-hand
  10. paper-handed
  11. paper-handing

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