PALE-FACED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pale-faced mean? 

• PALE-FACED (adjective)
  The adjective PALE-FACED has 1 sense:

1. having a pale face

  Familiarity information: PALE-FACED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALE-FACED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a pale face

Similar:

faced (having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

There’s Hamilton, for example, the quiet, pale-faced man who is learning against the pillar.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He took the hand which I dared not withhold, and having given it a damp squeeze, referred to his pale-faced watch.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Who should it be but the pale-faced, bearded man, who seemed himself in so nervous a state?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, while he can hardly be less than forty-five.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he turned his eager fiery gaze upon the pale-faced monk who faced him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)