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visage

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vis=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

visagen. [F. visage, from L. visus a seeing, a look, fr. videre, visum, to see. See Vision.].
     The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.  [1913 Webster]
    "His visage was so marred more than any man."  [1913 Webster]
    "Love and beauty still that visage grace."  [1913 Webster]
visagev. t. 
     To face.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

visage, n. literary a face, a countenance.

Derivative
visaged adj. (also in comb.).
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L visus sight (as VISA)

THESAURUS

visage

air, bearing, brow, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, color, complexion, countenance, demeanor, dial, expression, face, facial appearance, facies, favor, feature, features, garb, guise, kisser, lineaments, lines, looks, map, mien, mug, mush, pan, phiz, physiognomy, port, posture, presence, puss, stance, traits, turn

ROGET THESAURUS

visage

Front

N front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse (of a medal or coin), fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy, fore, anterior, front, frontal, before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front, formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, Human face divine, imago animi vultus est indices oculi, sea of upturned faces.

Appearance

N appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil, lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture, tableau, display, exposure, mise en sc ne, rising of the curtain, phantasm, phantom, pageant, spectacle, peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show, ombres chinoises, magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views, biograph, cinematograph, moving pictures, panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama, coup de theatre, jeu de theatre, pageantry, insignia, aspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming, shape, guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor, presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing, point of view, light, lineament feature trait lines, outline, outside, contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz, cast of countenance, profile, tournure, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy, outside, apparent, seeming, ostensible, on view, apparently, to all seeming, to all appearance, ostensibly, seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie, at the first blush, at first sight, in the eyes of, to the eye, editio princeps.


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