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Personage
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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- And my desire to be friends with an eminent personage conflicted with the fact that he was, ultimately, my boss.
- But the thoughts of an invented personage are not worth the paper they are written on.
- It will keep your smokes in pristine condition and lend your coughing, short-breathed personage a touch of the debonair.
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World English Dictionary
| personage (ˈpɜːsənɪdʒ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an important or distinguished person |
| 2. | another word for person : a strange personage |
| 3. | rare a figure in literature, history, etc |
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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
EXPAND(but often slyly ironical, with suggestion that the subject is overly self-important).
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