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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cast of a person's face taken after death.
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- noun A
plaster or similar cast of a person's face after death.
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- noun a cast taken from the face of a dead person
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treeseed commented on the word death mask
a cast taken from the face of a dead person
January 25, 2008