1. people with pale, sickly-looking faces
Usage: archaic; derogatory

Examples

• The old text described the sickly prisoners as wheyfaces.
• In Shakespeare’s time, wheyfaces referred to those with unnaturally pale complexions.
• The author used wheyfaces to describe the frightened, bloodless crowd.
• Historical literature sometimes mentions wheyfaces among the weak and fearful.
• The term wheyfaces appears in older English works describing cowardly characters.