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visage(dictionary)

visage (iou)



visage noun. Now chiefly literary. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Old French vis (cf. VIS-a-VIS) from Latin visus sight, appearance, from pa. pple of videre see: see -AGE.]
The face, esp. of a person; the face with regard to the form or proportions of the features. ME.
New Yorker A large man, wide of jowl and dark of visage.
The face or features as expressive of feeling or temperament; the expression on a person's face. ME.
L. Strachey The forbidding visage became charged with smiles.
External appearance or aspect. ME.
J. Pinkerton Noble serpentine..is..of an unctuous visage.
The face or visible side of the sun or moon. LME.
An image, a likeness; a portrait. LME-L16.
An assumed or misleading appearance; a show; a pretence. LME-L17.
visaged adjective having a visage (usu. as 2nd elem. of comb., as
grim-visaged) ME.