1894 Brewer’s / E / Effrontery
Out-facing, rude persistence, and overbearing impudence. (Latin, ef-frongs, i.e. ex-frons, out-face.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.