• Barefast

    Origin

    From bare + fast. Compare shamefast.

    Full definition of barefast

    Adjective

    barefast

    1. Barefaced.Now is she barefast to be seene, straight on her mufler goes; ... — Shakespeare.
      • 1924, Charles Wheeler Coit, The Royal Martyr - Page 319:... if God ever restored him to be in a peaceable possession of his Crown, he would demonstrate his repentance by a public confession and a voluntary penance (I think, barefast) from the Tower of London, or Whitehall, to St. Paul's Cathedral, ...
    © Wiktionary