rock-faced

American  

[rok-feyst] / ˈrɒkˈfeɪst /

adjective

1. (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.

2. having a rocky surface.

3. Masonry. noting a stone or stonework the visible face of which is dressed with a hammer, with or without a chiseled draft at the edges; quarry-faced.

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Etymology

Origin of rock-faced

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Largemouth are fair on islands and rock-faced steep shorelines with spinners and jigs.

From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2020

The landscape, in its jagged immensity and its brilliant blues and greens, its rock-faced coast and glassy fjord, reminded her and Montazeri of Mazandaran.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016

He described getting lost in his new surroundings, scaling a rock-faced mountain, water bottle in his teeth, buzzards overhead, “crawling on his belly like a reptile” while “pulling himself upward by grasping at plants.”

From New York Times • May 21, 2012

The limestone is generally used in the form of rubble or rock-faced ashler.

From Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

They passed along the street, turned, made their way down the rock-faced bluff to the water front; but still they were alone.

From The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman by Hough, Emerson