All 4 Uses
visage
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Earth's Holocaust
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- But I saw a grim smile pass over the seared visage of a stately old commander,—by his war-worn figure and rich military dress, he might have been one of Napoleon's famous marshals,—who, with the rest of the world's soldiery, had just flung away the sword that had been familiar to his right hand for half a century.†
- The small, richly gilt French tomes of the last age, with the hundred volumes of Voltaire among them, went off in a brilliant shower of sparkles and little jets of flame; while the current literature of the same nation burned red and blue, and threw an infernal light over the visages of the spectators, converting them all to the aspect of party-colored fiends.†
- "This is terrible!" said I, feeling that my check grew pale, and seeing a like change in the visages about me.†
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- "What but the human heart itself?" said the dark-visaged stranger, with a portentous grin.†
visaged = faced (having the type of face described)
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