facial
adjective/ˈfeɪʃl/
/ˈfeɪʃl/
[usually before noun]- 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
- …
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.Want to learn more?
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