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US
/ˈvɪzədʒ/
]
[ UK /vˈɪsɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /vˈɪsɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
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the appearance conveyed by a person's face
a pleasant countenance
a stern visage - the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
How To Use visage In A Sentence
- Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
- It was also envisaged that they would play an advocacy and educational role on behalf of dementia sufferers throughout their area.
- It is more than a decade since a coach and her young prodigy stood on a windswept Sheffield running track and envisaged the future. Times, Sunday Times
- If looking at the stand from the oval, you're faced with a visage of plate-glass windows that lends a futuristic look.
- Early ideas had envisaged a mobile linear defence. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
- However, Capt Amarinder Singh had also made it clear that Act also envisaged termination of all other agreements relating to Ravi-Beas waters and to discharge Punjab government from the obligations hereunder.
- Upon it, in lieu of the dogged, black – visaged ruffian they had expected to behold, there lay a mere child: worn with pain and exhaustion, and sunk into a deep sleep. Oliver Twist
- Living the student lifestyle, it becomes difficult to envisage yourself in a ‘normal’ routine.
- Her visage set against the wide expanse of the stars like the faded misty memory of a dream.
- When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air.