• White-faced

    Full definition of white-faced

    Adjective

    white-faced

    1. Alternative form of en.
      • Rinehart Man in Lower Ten|page=1|passage=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.
      • 1977, Genevieve Davis, A Passion in the Blood Chapter 28, 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.
      • 1989, w, The Scarlet Thread Chapter 19, As 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.
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