visard

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪzə(ɹ)d/

visard (third-person singular simple present visards, present participle visarding, simple past and past participle visarded)

1. To mask.

visard (plural visards)

1. A mask.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue ;
     Nor never come in visard to my friend

2. An oval mask of black velvet, worn by travelling women in the 16th century to protect their skin from sunburn.

• vizard, vizzard

• “visard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.