Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mask, usually of plaster, taken from a person's face after death.

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Examples

  • They'd see the death-mask faces I'd make while playing the drums, and I've always put on costumes and

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • Against the shadow of the doorway, his skin was almost translucently white, and his eyes bulged out of a horrific visage, a death-mask of hollow cheeks and taut, fleshless lips.

    Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

  • Against the shadow of the doorway, his skin was almost translucently white, and his eyes bulged out of a horrific visage, a death-mask of hollow cheeks and taut, fleshless lips.

    Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

  • Against the shadow of the doorway, his skin was almost translucently white, and his eyes bulged out of a horrific visage, a death-mask of hollow cheeks and taut, fleshless lips.

    Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

  • You can have a regular casket, or Summum's artists will take a death-mask and create a hand-made mummiform [outer shell] to fit your exact form, either in the Egyptian style or whatever asthetic or religious style you prefer.

    Become a Mummy Heather McDougal 2007

  • You can have a regular casket, or Summum's artists will take a death-mask and create a hand-made mummiform [outer shell] to fit your exact form, either in the Egyptian style or whatever asthetic or religious style you prefer.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • Forget John McCain and his sleazy, career-killing cynicism and ghoulish death-mask of transparent bullshit.

    thank you sir may I have another 2008

  • Forget John McCain and his sleazy, career-killing cynicism and ghoulish death-mask of transparent bullshit.

    flutter by 2008

  • His expression was like a death-mask, his brows drawn tight in a little frown and his jaw rigid.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • Society had a dingy exterior, a death-mask of Congreve in the hall,

    The Silver Spoon 2004

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