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1) The phrase ‘have the face’ was used to mean ‘be sufficiently impudent or shameless’

1678 asked Nicholas Singleton why he would doe so base a thing as to take his Master’s wooll … who had been so good a Maister to him and helped him both with worke and moneys and hee said hee had not a face to denye [it], Huddersfield.

places Huddersfield
dates 1678

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2) To cover a garment or part of it with another material.

1557 one gowne of blacke damaske faysed with budge, Thornton Bridge

1572 furred with squyrels and faced with jenets furr something decayed, Skipton.

dates 1557 1572

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