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visage
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synonyms: countenance ???
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Definition:The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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two cats, of a greedy and vituperative turn, entering at a hole in the wall, leaped up with a flourish a la Catalani, and alighting opposite one another on my visage, betook themselves to indecorous contention for the paltry consideration of my nose.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Loss of Breath (1832)
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Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
With tristful visage, as against the doom,
Is thought-sick at the act.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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When that my fourthe husband was on bier,
I wept algate and made a sorry cheer,
As wives must, for it is the usage;
And with my kerchief covered my visage;
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue (1400)
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