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bold face

noun

  1. printing a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary Compare light face
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. (of type) having this weight
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

How dare you stand there with a bold face and acknowledge such a thing to me, you unmaidenly girl?

A few presents are arriving, for I put a bold face on to my friends and say we are engaged and you are coming soon.

He tried to put a bold face upon the matter and asked insolently by what right they came to disturb his rest.

Our safest plan was to put a bold face on the matter, and show that we were prepared for fighting.

Kim felt sure that the boy had been posted to guide him from the first, but putting a bold face on it, parted the curtain.

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