visage
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ɪdʒ noun
1.
the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance.
2.
aspect; appearance.
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| —n | |
| 1. | face or countenance |
| 2. | appearance; aspect |
| [C13: from Old French: aspect, from vis face, from Latin vīsus appearance, from vidēre to see] | |
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Word Origin & History
visage
c.1300, from O.Fr. visage, from vis "face, appearance," from L. visus "a look, vision," from pp. stem of videre "to see" (see vision). Visagiste "make-up artist" is recorded from 1958, from Fr.
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Example sentences
The combination of shape and photographic details should make a perfect facsimile of your visage.
The strain was increasingly evident in his gaunt and saddened visage.
In this instance the visage was conferred, jawbone and all, by an unspecified donor.
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