visage

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"Hail and greeting to thee, my Pertinax; thy gloomy visage is a joy!"

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  1. noun The face or facial expression of a person; countenance.
  2. noun Appearance; aspect: the bleak visage of winter.

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  • The shirt that protected Cecil was his; and on his own bare shoulders and mighty chest the tiny armies of the flies and gnats were fastened, doing their will uninterrupted As he caught her glance, a sullen ruddy glow of shame shone through the black hard skin of his sunburnt visage--shame to which he had been never touched when discovered in any one of his guilty and barbarous actions Dame!_" he growled savagely; "he gave me his wine; one must do something in return. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
  • Having revived its powers to such an extent that clouds enveloped his visage, and his nose, being red, loomed luridly through them, he removed the pipe, and again said, "Humph! —  Black Ivory
  • Och! it'll go hard wid Read on, Flynn, and hold your tongue," cried one of his comrades; "p-r-aps he's left the old woman a legacy The corporal did read on, and during the perusal of the letter the change in his visage was marvellous, exhibiting as it did an almost magical transition from profound woe, through abrupt gradations of surprise, to intense joy Hooray!" —  Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
  • Then his visage was elongated as the fish escaped, and was again convulsed by another pull, or shone in triumph as he hauled the wriggling captive into the light of day Towards evening the wind fell, and we resumed our journey. —  Ungava
  • I say, let go your canoe and hold on to me_," cried Lambert, in excitement, but the man spoken to made no reply, and would not let go the wrecked canoe Lambert therefore hauled him powerfully and slowly alongside until his visage was level with the gunwale. —  The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood
 

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countenance ·  brow ·  mien ·  grin ·  complexion ·  stare ·  mask ·  feature ·  jaw ·  eyebrow ·  spectacle ·  hue

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visage:   visages
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from vis, from Latin vīsus, appearance, from past participle of vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English visage, from Old French (and F.) visage = Spanish visaje = Portuguese visagem = Old Italian visaggio, from Middle Latin as if *visaticum, from Latin visus, a look, vision, from vidcre, past participle visus, see: see vision, and cf. vis.
  2. from Middle English visagen; from visage, n.
 

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