Bare-faced. Impudence unconcealed. A “bare-faced lie” is a lie told shamelessly and without prevarication.
Shame-faced. Having shame expressed in the face.
Faced with [silk, etc.]. An inferior article bearing the surface of a superior one, as when cotton-velvet has a silk surface; the “facings” (as the lining of coat-cuffs, etc.) made of silk, etc.
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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.