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right face

American  

noun

Military.
  1. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body 90° toward the right.

  2. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.


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It’s no longer a question of wearing a face mask on some airlines, but the right face mask.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2021

It suggests a problem that women on the right face if they hope to right their party’s gender imbalance: They’ll have to work much harder than men to prove their conservative bona fides.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2020

A shinty player is used to hitting the ball as often with the left as the right face of the stick, which, interestingly, is raked back to as much as a 5-wood in golf.”

From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020

Chui is a facial-recognition system that works with smart locks to automatically grant entry to those with the right face.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2016

But it wasn’t the right face; they weren’t the right freckles, and the hair was dyed black.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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