The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semblant \Sem"blant\, a. [F. semblant, p. pr.]
Like; resembling. [Obs.]
--Prior.Seeming, rather than real; apparent. [R.]
--Carlyle.
Semblant \Sem"blant\, n. [F.]
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Show; appearance; figure; semblance. [Obs.]
--Spenser.His flatterers made semblant of weeping.
--Chaucer. The face. [Obs.]
--Wyclif (Luke xxiv. 5).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) Like; resembling. 2 (context obsolete English) Seeming, rather than real; apparent. n. (context obsolete English) One's outward appearance.
Usage examples of "semblant".
Anon withal he saw an hundred ladies and many knights, that welcomed him with fair semblant, and made him passing good cheer unto his sight, and led him into the castle, and there was dancing and minstrelsy and all manner of joy.
But because she would not it were known, outward she kept her countenance, and made no semblant of sorrow.
Sir Tristram made semblant as he had been sorry, and better knew he how it was than the king.
So when he came with his wife Anglides, the king made them fair semblant till they had dined.