Both Uses of
visage
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- LYSANDER Helen, to you our minds we will unfold: To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold Her silver visage in the watery glass, Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,—A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,—Through Athens' gates have we devis'd to steal.†
Scene 1.1 *
- O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!†
Scene 4.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(visage) someone's face or facial expression
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, visage can refer to any easily seen aspect of something