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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”).
visage (plural visages)
- Countenance; one's face.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:countenance- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:
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.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:
- The appearance or aspect of something, especially when expressive or distinctive.
Snowflakes fell gently across the mountain’s rugged visage.- 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:
[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.
- 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:
countenance; appearance; face
Bulgarian: лице (bg) n (lice), образ (bg) m (obraz), изражение (bg) n (izraženie)
Esperanto: aspekto
Georgian: სახე (ka) (saxe), გამომეტყველება (gamomeṭq̇veleba)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕوخسار (ruxsar)Persian: چهره (fa) (čehre), رخ (fa) (rox), رخسار (fa) (roxsâr), سیما (fa) (simâ)
Russian: выраже́ние лица (ru) n (vyražénije lica)
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: یوز (yüz), چهره (çehre), وجه (vech, vecih), رو (rû)“visage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “visage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
visage
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Inherited from Old French visage, from vis (from Latin visus) + -age, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *visāticum.
visage m (plural visages)
face (only used in certain constructions, or in Canada)
“visage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Borrowed from Old French visage.
visage (plural visages)
From Vulgar Latin *vīsāticum, derived from Latin vīsus. By surface analysis, vis + -age. Compare Old Occitan vizatge.
visage oblique singular, m (oblique plural visages, nominative singular visages, nominative plural **visage)