open-faced

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Adjective

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open-faced (not comparable)

  1. (of a sandwich, etc.) Being a single slice of bread with a topping.
    Synonyms: open, open-face
  2. Having an honest and sincere expression.
    • 1878, The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany, page 75:
      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.
    • 2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House:
      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.