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  • adjective rare Wearing a vizard.

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  • adjective Wearing a vizard.

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Examples

  • There was but one evidence of personal taste, a vizarded forage cap; from this form of headpiece, since he had fled from a dying jackal on the plains of Ephesus, and weathered a bora in the

    The Wrong Box 2004

  • Yet the wise man sighs for those fearless days, when the brilliant Macheath rode vizarded down Shooter's Hill, and presently saw his exploits set forth, with the proper accompaniment of a renowned and ancient woodcut, upon a penny broadside.

    A Book of Scoundrels 1896

  • Yet the wise man sighs for those fearless days, when the brilliant Macheath rode vizarded down Shooter's Hill, and presently saw his exploits set forth, with the proper accompaniment of a renowned and ancient woodcut, upon a penny broadside.

    A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894

  • Monsignor Masterman gave scarcely a glance even to the monstrous figures of the Chinese imperial guard, who went by presently in black armour and vizarded helmets, like old Oriental gods.

    Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • There was but one evidence of personal taste, a vizarded forage cap; from this form of headpiece, since he had fled from a dying jackal on the plains of Ephesus, and weathered a bora in the Adriatic, nothing could divorce our traveller.

    The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • A black-vizarded ruffian (whom we will unmask), who signs the forged name of Trefoil, is at present one of the chief bravoes and bullies in our contemporary's establishment.

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • The two gentlemen, muffled up in their cloaks and vizarded, repaired to the Fauxbourg, at the appointed time, where they found the soldiers on the post allotted for them by their officer; on which they all rode off together, and arrived before the walls of the monastery some few minutes before twelve, at which hour precisely the gate was opened, and a woman appeared at it.

    Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura Eliza Fowler Haywood 1724

  • Shortly after, meeting Hellena in the street, he commences an ardent courtship, which is detected by the jealous Angelica, who has followed him vizarded.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • A black-vizarded ruffian (whom we will unmask), who signs the forged name of Trefoil, is at present one of the chief bravoes and bullies in our contemporary’s establishment.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

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  • A vizarded wizard swallowed a lizard

    To complete an arcane spell he was casting -

    When the scaly lacertid became mired in his gizzard

    He choked, swore and asserted

    Thenceforth to only make magic while fasting.

    December 9, 2011