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
He went out hastily and saddled his horse and rode to the rock-faced bluff, turned into a niche and rode back to the farther end, then swung sharply to the left.
From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto
The four abutments with their retaining walls are of first-class rock-faced masonry.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
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