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visage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visage \Vis"age\ (?; 48), n. [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.
--Chaucer. ``A visage of
demand.''
--Shak.
His visage was so marred more than any man.
--Isa. lii.
14.
Love and beauty still that visage grace.
--Waller.
Visage \Vis"age\ (?; 48), v. t.
To face. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Anglo-French and Old French visage "face, coutenance; portrait," from vis "face, appearance," from Latin visus "a look, vision," from past participle stem of videre "to see" (see vision). Visagiste "make-up artist" is recorded from 1958, from French.
Wiktionary
n. countenance; appearance; one's face.
WordNet
n. the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) [syn: countenance, physiognomy, phiz, kisser, smiler, mug]
the appearance conveyed by a person's face; "a pleasant countenance"; "a stern visage" [syn: countenance]
Wikipedia
Visage were a British synthpop band, formed in London in 1978. The band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s, and are best known for their hit " Fade to Grey" which was released in late 1980. In the UK, the band achieved two Top 20 albums ( Visage and The Anvil) and five Top 30 singles before the commercial failure of their third album ( Beat Boy) led to their break-up in 1985.
The band has seen various line-up changes over the years, all fronted by vocalist Steve Strange, who resurrected the band name in the 2000s. In 2013, the most recent line-up of the band released Hearts and Knives, the first new Visage album in 29 years. The band's fifth and final album, Demons to Diamonds, was released in 2015, nine months after Strange had died following a heart attack.
Visage is the eponymous debut studio album by the British new wave band Visage. It was recorded at Genetic Sound Studios in Reading, Berkshire and released on 10 November 1980 by Polydor Records.
"Visage" is the fourth single by the British pop group Visage, released by Polydor Records on 29 June 1981. It is the title track from Visage's eponymous debut album. The single peaked at no.21 in the UK Singles Chart.
Visage is the name of a compilation EP by the British band Visage, released in July 1981 by Polydor Records.
Visage may refer to:
- A synonym of face
- Visage (band), a British pop group
- Visage Mobile, an American software as a service company
- Visage (film), also known as Face, a 2009 French film
- "Visage", a 2003 episode of Smallville
Visage is a compilation video by the British band Visage, released in 1986.
Visage is an album by American jazz saxophonist Rob Brown recorded in 1998 and released on the French Marge label. It features a never previously heard Rob Brown trio with bassist Wilber Morris and drummer Lou Grassi. These three musicians were programmed with different bands during the 1998 edition of the French Rive de Gier jazz festival and producer Gérard Terronès took the opportunity to record the trio in Paris.
Visage is an independent survival horror video game in development by SadSquare Studio. Similar to Allison Road, the game is a spiritual successor to P.T. The game is currently running Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight campaigns.
Usage examples of "visage".
The sight of his own visage on that godlike frame thrilled him, and he laughed aloud as he willed his elemental double into battle against Ameer Tukephremo.
His apish visage began to look as if whitewash were being pumped under the skin.
For some minutes the invaders busied themselves slashing, defacing and defiling queenly visages.
The three portly-looking gentlemen whose grog-blossomed visages speak their love of the good things of this world are the Admirals Scott and Hope, and that facetious of all funny senators, Sir Isaac Coffin.
He looked down into a pool and caught sight of his visage looking up at him, wavery and sinister, and he immediately frabbled his fingers in the water to break up the image for he had no desire to look upon himself.
I blinked painfully, squinting in the glare-then gasped at the incredible figure standing in the open door Chapter 18 RED SWORDS IN KUUR It had a massive chest and burly shoulders, six, fat waddling legs and a blunt, homely visage, all gogling eyes and grinning, froglike mouth filled with blunt, powerful tusks.
As Vangerdahast expected when he looked up, he found himself staring into the haggish visage of the first ghazneth he had encountered.
Thomas Marvel as a person of copious, flexible visage, a nose of cylindrical protrusion, a liquorish, ample, fluctuating mouth, and a beard of bristling eccentricity.
He cannot think that he has ever lived there in the far lost hills, or ever left them, and all his life seems stranger than the dream of time, and the great train moves on across the immense and lonely visage of America, making its great monotone that is the sound of silence and for ever.
The ample visage of Inspector Hall looked flabby and liverish, showed no sort of pleasure at the sight of Mr.
Un joyeux rayon du soleil levant entrait par sa lucarne et lui venait frapper le visage.
Il etait petit, gros, le visage jaune, avec des yeux pleins de mitraille et un air de tranquillite.
Mais, pour moi, crois-tu que, sous le coup de cette mort, je pourrais montrer a tes invites un visage affable?
High up, in the immense and tempestuous skies, the clouds were driving at furious speed, in an inexhaustible processional, across the visage of a wild and desolate moon, which broke through momently with a kind of savage and beleaguered reprisal to cast upon the waste below a shattered, lost and fiercely ragged light.
The graceful, composed visage of Viha Nata again appeared on the screen.