bold-face
(ˈbəʊldfeɪs)
[f. bold a. + face n.]
1. One who has a bold face; an impudent person; also attrib.
| 1692 R. Lestrange Fables (1708) I. cclxiii. 279 How now Bold-Face, crys an Old Trot. 1741 Richardson Pamela I. 43 If I have been a Sauce-box, and a Bold-face, and Pest, and a Creature, as he calls me. 1793 J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Apple-dumplings Wks. I. 100 A ragged, bold-face, ballad-singing crew. 1859 Dickens T. Two Cities iii. ii, ‘Well, I am sure, Boldface! I hope you are pretty well!’ |
2. Bold-faced type; also attrib.
| 1889 Cent. Dict., Bold-face. 1902 De Vinne Pract. Typogr., Processes Type-making (ed. 2) i. 50 A bold-face with hair-lines and serifs too weak. 1905 F. H. Collins Authors' & Printers' Dict., Bold-face type..indicated in MS. by wavy underlining. 1931 Boys' Mag. XLV. 148/1 To use Roman, italic, and bold face capitals, and lower case as well as numerals, signs, borders, etc., one needs no fewer than 225 characters. |