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Definition of facial adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

facial

adjective
 
/ˈfeɪʃl/
 
/ˈfeɪʃl/
[usually before noun]
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  1. connected with a person’s face; on a person’s face
    • a facial expression
    • facial hair
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryFacial is used with these nouns:
    • deformity
    • expression
    • feature
    • …
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (as a theological term meaning ‘face to face, open’): from medieval Latin facialis, from facies ‘form, appearance, face’. The current sense of the adjective dates from the early 19th cent.
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