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English

Noun

visage (plural visages)

  • Countenance; one’s face.
    • ✤ Synonyms: see Thesaurus: countenance
    • ✤ Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.1
  • The appearance or aspect of something, especially when expressive or distinctive.
    • ✤ Snowflakes fell gently across the mountain’s rugged visage.
    • ✤ [T]he monſter, rouſed by the noiſe, ſtarted forward, preſented ſuch a viſage of horror, and raiſed ſuch a hideous roar, that the hearts of the bold were contracted, and the nerves of the valiant unſtrung.2

Etymology

From Middle English visage, from Anglo-Norman visage, from Vulgar Latin ﹡vīsāticum, derived from Latin vīsus (“appearance, sight”), derived from vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision. See -age (“noun suffix”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈvɪz.ɪd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Hyphenation: vis‧age
  • Rhymes: -ɪzɪd͡ʒ

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Footnotes

  1. 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334: ↩

  2. 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 6: ↩