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VISAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The appearance conveyed by a person's face
Example:
a stern visage
Synonyms:
countenance; visage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("visage" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visage"):
aspect; expression; face; facial expression; look (the feelings expressed on a person's face)
poker face (a face without any interpretable expression (as that of a good poker player))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British)
Synonyms:
countenance; kisser; mug; phiz; physiognomy; smiler; visage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("visage" is a kind of...):
face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visage"):
pudding-face; pudding face (a large fat human face)
Holonyms ("visage" is a part of...):
human head (the head of a human being)
Context examples:
Long did Alleyne bear the scene in mind—the knot of knights in their dull leaden-hued armor, the ruddy visage of Sir Oliver, the craggy features of the Scottish earl, the shining scalp of Sir Nigel, with the dense ring of hard, bearded faces and the long brown heads of the horses, all topped and circled by the beetling cliffs.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The ugly monster, when he saw me, distorted several ways, every feature of his visage, and stared, as at an object he had never seen before; then approaching nearer, lifted up his fore-paw, whether out of curiosity or mischief I could not tell; but I drew my hanger, and gave him a good blow with the flat side of it, for I durst not strike with the edge, fearing the inhabitants might be provoked against me, if they should come to know that I had killed or maimed any of their cattle.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
As Janet curtsied, hoping I was well, I observed my aunt's visage lengthen very much.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Anything to equal the low cunning of his visage, and of his shadowless eyes without the ghost of an eyelash, I never saw.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The maniac bellowed: she parted her shaggy locks from her visage, and gazed wildly at her visitors.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“You knew me, a long time before I came here and was changed, Mr. Copperfield,” said Uriah, looking at me; and a more villainous look I never saw, even on his visage.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Soon I had traced on the paper a broad and prominent forehead and a square lower outline of visage: that contour gave me pleasure; my fingers proceeded actively to fill it with features.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And he gave me a look as he shouldered the largest box and went out, which I thought had meaning in it, if meaning could ever be said to find its way into Mr. Barkis's visage.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was aware her lurid visage flamed over mine, and I lost consciousness: for the second time in my life—only the second time—I became insensible from terror.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
