rock-faced
Americanadjective
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(of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
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having a rocky surface.
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Masonry. noting a stone or stonework the visible face of which is dressed with a hammer, with or without a chiseled draft at the edges; quarry-faced.
Etymology
Origin of rock-faced
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Largemouth are fair on islands and rock-faced steep shorelines with spinners and jigs.
From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2020
The landscape, in its jagged immensity and its brilliant blues and greens, its rock-faced coast and glassy fjord, reminded her and Montazeri of Mazandaran.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016
He described getting lost in his new surroundings, scaling a rock-faced mountain, water bottle in his teeth, buzzards overhead, “crawling on his belly like a reptile” while “pulling himself upward by grasping at plants.”
From New York Times • May 21, 2012
They passed along the street, turned, made their way down the rock-faced bluff to the water front; but still they were alone.
From The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman by Hough, Emerson
Again, as at Grand Rapids, where the banks were rock-faced and sheer, the canoes would run merrily in swift-flowing waters.
From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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