the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance.
2.
aspect; appearance.
Origin: 1250–1300;Middle English < Anglo-French,Old French, equivalent to vis face (< Latinvīsum sight, appearance (Vulgar Latin: face), noun use of neuter past participle of vidēre to see) + -age-age
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.