Stella repeats, in dismay: 'bold,' for her, means pert, aggressive,-in short, something terrible.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
Well, you saw him; clean and pert-lookin', ain't he?
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
It was the pert face that had fooled him, with the upturned nose, because she wasn't young.
"Tangle Hold"
F. L. Wallace