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PERSONAGE

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per⋅son⋅age

  [pur-suh-nij]
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–noun
1. a person of distinction or importance.
2. any person.
3. a character in a play, story, etc.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME: body or image (statue, portrait) of a person (< OF) < ML persōnāgium. See person, -age

Synonyms:
1. See person.
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per·son·age   (pûr'sə-nĭj)   
n.  

  1. A character in a literary work.

    1. A person.

    2. A person of distinction. See Synonyms at celebrity.


[Middle English, person, from Old French, from persone, person; see person.]
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Word Origin & History

personage 
1461, "body of a person" (with regard to appearance), from O.Fr. personage (13c.), from M.L. personaticum (1057), from persona (see person). Meaning "a person of high rank or distinction" is attested from 1503; as a longer way to say person, the word was in use from c.1555 (but often slyly ironical, with suggestion that the subject is overly self-important).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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