Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mask, usually of plaster, taken from a person's face after death.
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Examples
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They'd see the death-mask faces I'd make while playing the drums, and I've always put on costumes and
ɘloЯ 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Forget John McCain and his sleazy, career-killing cynicism and ghoulish death-mask of transparent bullshit.
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Forget John McCain and his sleazy, career-killing cynicism and ghoulish death-mask of transparent bullshit.
flutter by 2008
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His expression was like a death-mask, his brows drawn tight in a little frown and his jaw rigid.
Greenmantle 2005
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Society had a dingy exterior, a death-mask of Congreve in the hall,
The Silver Spoon 2004
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