open-faced

English

Adjective

open-faced (not comparable)

1. (of a sandwich, etc.) Being a single slice of bread with a topping.

   Synonyms: open, open-face

2. Having an honest and sincere expression.
   • 1878, The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany, page 75:

     Frank Broughton was a finely-grown, open-faced boy of thirteen, the eldest of a family of four, and to-morrow he was to be launched upon the unknown sea of public-school life.

   • 2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House:

     There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed.