All 25 Uses
visage
in
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
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- And then she leapt out of her pavilion, and took Sir Alisander by the bridle, and thus she said: Fair knight, I require thee of thy knighthood show me thy visage.†
Book 10
- I dare well, said Alisander, show my visage.†
Book 10 *
- And then he put off his helm; and she saw his visage, she said: O sweet Jesu, thee I must love, and never other.†
Book 10
- Then show me your visage, said he.†
Book 10
- Then she unwimpled her visage.†
Book 10
- And as they were thus weeping and crying, Sir Palomides that had suffered an hundred strokes, that it was wonder that he stood on his feet, at the last Sir Palomides beheld as he might the common people, how they wept for him; and then he said to himself: Ah, fie for shame, Sir Palomides, why hangest thou thy head so low; and therewith he bare up his shield, and looked Sir Helius in the visage, and he smote him a great stroke upon the helm, and after that another and another.†
Book 10
- And so they led La Beale Isoud thither as she should stand and behold all the jousts in a bay window; but always she was wimpled that no man might see her visage.†
Book 10
- So upon a day, in the dawning, Sir Palomides went into the forest by himself alone; and there he found a well, and then he looked into the well, and in the water he saw his own visage, how he was disturbed and defaded, nothing like that he was.†
Book 10
- And when Sir Launcelot awoke of his swoon, he leapt out at a bay window into a garden, and there with thorns he was all to-scratched in his visage and his body; and so he ran forth he wist not whither, and was wild wood as ever was man; and so he ran two year, and never man might have grace to know him.†
Book 11
- THEN the king, at the queen's request, made him to alight and to unlace his helm, that the queen might see him in the visage.†
Book 13
- And therewith the tears began to run down by his visage.†
Book 13
- Then Sir Percivale espied that therein was a man or a woman, for the visage was covered; then he left off his looking and heard his service.†
Book 14
- And then Sir Percivale espied his body was full of great wounds, both on the shoulders, arms, and visage.†
Book 14
- So in his withdrawing he fell upright, and Sir Bors drew his helm so strongly that he rent it from his head, and gave him great strokes with the flat of his sword upon the visage, and bade him yield him or he should slay him.†
Book 16
- With that he blessed his body and his visage.†
Book 16
- Right so entered he into the chamber, and came toward the table of silver; and when he came nigh he felt a breath, that him thought it was intermeddled with fire, which smote him so sore in the visage that him thought it brent his visage; and therewith he fell to the earth, and had no power to arise, as he that was so araged, that had lost the power of his body, and his hearing, and his seeing.†
Book 17
- Right so entered he into the chamber, and came toward the table of silver; and when he came nigh he felt a breath, that him thought it was intermeddled with fire, which smote him so sore in the visage that him thought it brent his visage; and therewith he fell to the earth, and had no power to arise, as he that was so araged, that had lost the power of his body, and his hearing, and his seeing.†
Book 17
- And at the lifting up there came a figure in likeness of a child, and the visage was as red and as bright as any fire, and smote himself into the bread, so that they all saw it that the bread was formed of a fleshly man; and then he put it into the Holy Vessel again, and then he did that longed to a priest to do to a mass.†
Book 17
- For as the book saith he might have slain them, but when he saw their visages his heart might not serve him thereto, but left them there.†
Book 18
- Fie on thee, false recreant knight, said Sir Gawaine; I let thee wit my lord, mine uncle, King Arthur, shall have his queen and thee, maugre thy visage, and slay you both whether it please him.†
Book 20
- Therefore, Sir Launcelot, I require thee and beseech thee heartily, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, that thou never see me more in the visage; and I command thee, on God's behalf, that thou forsake my company, and to thy kingdom thou turn again, and keep well thy realm from war and wrack; for as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed; therefore, Sir Launcelot, go to thy realm, and there take thee a wife, and live with her with joy and bliss; and I pray thee heartily, pray for me to our Lord that I may amend my misliving.†
Book 21
- Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed.†
Book 21
- And ever his visage was laid open and naked, that all folks might behold him.†
Book 21
- For such was the custom in those days, that all men of worship should so lie with open visage till that they were buried.†
Book 21
- And when he beheld Sir Launcelot's visage, he fell down in a swoon.†
Book 21
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