Barefaced.

Audacious, shameless, impudent. This seems to imply that social and good manners require concealment, or, at any rate, to veil the face with “white lies.” In Latinretecta facie; in French—à visage découvert. Cassius says to his friend Brutus, “If I have veiled my looks …,” that is, concealed my thoughts from you.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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