Facing
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Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin facies ‘form, appearance, face’.
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facing (n.)
"defiance," 1520s, verbal noun from face (v.). Meaning "action of turning the face toward" is from 1540s; that of "covering in front of a garment" is from 1560s; that of "a coating" is from 1580s; that of "front or outer part of a wall, building, etc.," is from 1823. Earliest use is as "disfiguring, defacing" (c. 1400).
facing (adj.)
1560s, "audacious," present-participle adjective from face (v.). From 1849 as "that is opposite to."
