visnomy

No doubt he saw in his memory's eye the majestic nose of my aunt, and my "visnomy" under the effect of such a contrast must have looked comical enough, by way of a tragic mask.

Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851

Quoth another, “And never did I see aught fouler than his favour or more hideous than his visnomy.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Privately, one studies his own ill-modeled visnomy to see if by any chance it bespeaks the emotions he inwardly feels.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

His crown was bald and encircled by a fair supply of crisp, curly, and silvery hair, whilst a thick gray moustache gave no martial and veteran air to his visnomy.

Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872

All those present laughed at her mockery of Iblis and wondered at the wittiness of her visnomy [FN#190] and her readiness in versifying, whilst the Shaykh himself rejoiced and said to her,

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

And when the morning rose, she rose * And crescent like her visnomy:

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

‘Physiognomy’ will not give place to ‘visnomy’, however

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

One of the performers had blown his visnomy to a point.

Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838

"The matter!" answered I, in astonishment; looking to see if the man had lost his sight or his senses -- "the matter! who ever saw a sheep's head with straight horns, and a visnomy all colours of the rainbow -- red, blue, orange, green, yellow, white, and black?"

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

"The matter!" answered I, in astonishment; looking to see if the man had lost his sight or his senses -- "the matter! who ever saw a sheep's head with straight horns, and a visnomy all colours of the rainbow -- red, blue, orange, green, yellow, white, and black?"

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824