visage

From Middle English visage, from Anglo-Norman and from Old French visage, from vis, from Vulgar Latin as if *visāticum, from Latin visus (“a look, vision”), from vidēre (“to see”); see vision.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪzɪd͡ʒ/, /vɪˈsɑd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪzɪd͡ʒ

visage (plural visages)

1. Countenance; appearance; one's face.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:countenance

   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 6:

     [T]he monſter, rouſed by the noiſe, ſtarted forward, preſented ſuch a viſage of horror, and raiſed ſuch a hideous roar, that the hearts of the bold were contracted, and the nerves of the valiant unſtrung.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:

     Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.

• visaged
• envisage
• evidence
• vision
• visionary
• visual
• visualization
• visualize

• “visage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “visage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Veigas

Inherited from Old French visage, from vis (from Latin visus) + -age, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *visāticum.

• IPA^(key): /vi.zaʒ/

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visage m (plural visages)

1. face (of a human)

   Synonyms: (vulgar) tronche; (slang) bouille; (vulgar) gueule; figure

• face (only used in certain constructions, or in Canada)

• “visage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Old French visage.

visage (plural visages)

1. (anatomy) face

• face

• English: visage

From Vulgar Latin *vīsāticum, derived from Latin vīsus. By surface analysis, vis +‎ -age. Compare Old Occitan vizatge.

visage oblique singular, m (oblique plural visages, nominative singular visages, nominative plural visage)

1. (anatomy) face

   Synonyms: vis, face, volt

• Bourguignon: vizaige
• French: visage
  • → Esperanto: vizaĝo
• → Middle English: visage
  • English: visage
• → Italian: visaggio