Definition of "open-faced"

open-faced

adjective
not comparable
1. (of a sandwich, etc.) Being a single slice of bread with a topping.
2. Having an honest and sincere expression.
  Quotations
  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.
  1878, The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany, page 75
  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.
  2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House