All 7 Uses
visage
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Billy Budd
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- This complexion, singularly contrasting with the red or deeply bronzed visages of the sailors, and in part the result of his official seclusion from the sunlight, tho' it was not exactly displeasing, nevertheless seemed to hint of something defective or abnormal in the constitution and blood.†
Chpt 8
- As one of a boarding-party from the Agamemnon he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.†
Chpt 9 *
- Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David.†
Chpt 12
- But the incident confirmed to him certain tell—tale reports purveyed to his ear by Squeak, one of his more cunning Corporals, a grizzled little man, so nicknamed by the sailors on account of his squeaky voice, and sharp visage ferreting about the dark corners of the lower decks after interlopers, satirically suggesting to them the idea of a rat in a cellar.†
Chpt 13
- "And is that all you did about it, Foretopman?" gruffly demanded another, an irascible old fellow of brick—colored visage and hair, and who was known to his associate forecastlemen as Red Pepper; "Such sneaks I should like to marry to the gunner's daughter!" by that expression meaning that he would like to subject them to disciplinary castigation over a gun.†
Chpt 14
- But this was an evanescence, and quickly repented of, as it were, by an immitigable look, pinching and shrivelling the visage into the momentary semblance of a wrinkled walnut.†
Chpt 17
- —Now, Master—at-arms, tell this man to his face what you told of him to me;" and stood prepared to scrutinize the mutually confronting visages.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(visage) someone's face or facial expression
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, visage can refer to any easily seen aspect of something