Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mask made to cover the upper part of the face, and used for disguise, as at masquerades, and also for protection from the sun's rays, by ladies in the eighteenth century.
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Examples
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“Good, Pascal,” she whispered, and set him on the floor, pulling the half-mask down over her face.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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“Good, Pascal,” she whispered, and set him on the floor, pulling the half-mask down over her face.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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A boy had picked out a white "Phantom of the Opera" half-mask.
After 3 decades of dress-up, a costume wrangler takes her leave John Kelly 2010
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A boy had picked out a white "Phantom of the Opera" half-mask.
After 3 decades of dress-up, a costume wrangler takes her leave John Kelly 2010
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“Good, Pascal,” she whispered, and set him on the floor, pulling the half-mask down over her face.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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Chino, usually the servant of the Comic Father or the Merchant, is willowy and mischievous, with a black half-mask, with slanted eye holes, with red-and-yellow diamond-figured tights and pullover.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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What would the Timid Captain be if he did not, beneath his long-nosed half-mask, have those fierce mustaches to twirl, the formidable wooden sword dragging behind him?
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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I cinched up my hood, pulled down the half-mask, and looked around.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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The woman wore a half-mask made of peacock feathers that spread out over the top of her head, leaving only her eyes to pierce through like gleaming stones.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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The woman wore a half-mask made of peacock feathers that spread out over the top of her head, leaving only her eyes to pierce through like gleaming stones.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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