Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a visage or countenance of a kind specified.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a visage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective literary Having a certain type of face.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a face or visage as specified
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Examples
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After the first trip he described the American as being "sharp-visaged, nervous, lank, and restless".
The Yankee Myth 2010
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I was a child, a boy of eight or nine, and I was weary, as was the woman, dusty-visaged and haggard, who sat up beside me and soothed a crying babe in her arms.
Chapter 12 2010
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He hired a nurse, a grim-visaged professional named Miss Mabel McGillicuddy.
"A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 2 Johnny Pez 2010
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He hired a nurse, a grim-visaged professional named Miss Mabel McGillicuddy.
Archive 2010-01-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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����At the next house a man stopped us to show where a blind little brother had been burnt alive, and the spot where he had found his calcined bones, and the rough, hard - visaged man sat down and cried like a child��
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Presently she added, O my lord Nur al-Din, an thou desire to nonsuit separation, be on thy guard against a swart-visaged oldster, blind of the right eye and lame of the left leg; for he it is who will be the cause of our severance.
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Finally, the black bottle went round till it was empty, and there was so much shaking of hands and interchanging of compliments, that even the metal – visaged
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"Senator Lott has apologized, and rightly so," a stern-visaged Bush said.
Ghosts Of The Past 2007
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Saxon from the South, or the dark-haired, sallow-visaged Celt from the Highlands, driven forth by the gaunt hand of famine, all look back to Scotland as to “_their country_” — the mention of its name kindles animation in the dim eye of age, and causes the bounding heart of youth to leap with enthusiasm.
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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 2007
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