1 gen 1678 anni - face

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The phrase ‘have the face’ was used to mean ‘be sufficiently impudent or shameless’: 1678 <i>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</i> [it], Huddersfield (QS1).

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