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词汇 visage
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Definition of visage in English:

visage

noun ˈvɪzɪdʒˈvɪzɪdʒ
literary
  • 1A person's face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features.

    〈诗/文〉面容,脸

    an elegant, angular visage

    端庄瘦削的脸庞。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And feel it I do, collapsing as the dream girl turns to face me, her visage hidden by the sun's golden glare.
    • Aeron hadn't yet removed his hood, so the features of his visage remained a mystery.
    • His appearance was immaculate and the sharp lines of his face cast dark shadows across his visage.
    • Dimples, especially on the chin, also increase the angularity and definition of the male face, creating the impression of a strong visage.
    • For one thing, it lacked resemblance to the most popular photograph of the poet, featuring a youthful visage and spectacles.
    • Argento commonly indulges in a palette of bold, primary colors and frequently lets brash red or blue gels transform his characters' features into comic strip-like visages.
    • It is a wristwatch featuring the visage of Guevara, and the word ‘REVOLUTION.’
    • Television footage of seniors in that high school a few days later showed young visages looking directly into the face of death.
    • At this time the chinos actually came with a little tag featuring Warne's smiling visage.
    • His face, countenance, visage, none was there!
    • The sharpness of his face drew shadows, and his unblemished visage resembled the moon, a glowing white, with shadows of gray cast upon it.
    • He uses the visages of famous people in Wax museum 1 and 2.
    • Eadie has one, all right: His angular visage is all wariness and hurt; he looks malnourished and scared, and tragically adult.
    • Well, he isn't really right in front of me - his visage on a glossy poster is.
    • He didn't see the yellow letters of the sign turn blood red, or the cute face of the munchkin contort into the twisted visage of a vampire.
    • Meanwhile, the visage of the elegant, thin-ankled man in the painting is hard to discern from a distance, since his features are enveloped by the darkness of his skin.
    • The figures of his Winged Evocations with stoic visages cast from the artist's face, stood in a line facing a vault entrance.
    • Now too weak to move, Willow stared in horror as Buffy's face transformed itself into the demonic visage that all vampires hid beneath the trappings of humanity.
    • Pretty little Gertie's face seemed to bloat into the meaty visage of a moustached cop.
    • The unflattering signs of age on her face are emphasized, giving her visage that sense of gravitas associated with old men in old-master paintings.
    Synonyms
    face, countenance, physiognomy, profile
    1. 1.1 A person's facial expression.
      面部表情
      there was something hidden behind his visage of cheerfulness

      他快活的面部表情背后隐藏着某种东西。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Behind the kindly visage is a fiery religious zealot.
      • Time's close up makes Padilla's visage appear far more sinister.
      • By the end of his life his Hollywood good looks had faded, replaced by the grim visage captured in Bruce Weber's documentary film Let's Get Lost.
      • Her face contained not an ounce of anger, the expression on her face, if anything, was a visage of pity.
      • The expression is so unexpected on her naturally serious visage that I'm temporarily rendered speechless.
      • The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face.
      • Trrol saw as much apprehension as determination in their grim visages, and he read clearly, too, that they possessed little in the way of fencing skills.
      • While desperation was clear on their faces, his visage betrayed nothing.
      • I see grimaces of pain from once smiling visages.
      • Doyle sighed, the beautiful voice at odds with his grim visage.
      • He could see her legs were weakened by the sight; Joe helped her keep her balance and engaged her in friendly conversation in an attempt to take her mind off the terrible visage of deaths manifestation.
      • The man's eyes widened momentarily and his nostrils flared, and then he forced his face into a blank visage.
      • Lionel moved around so he could clearly see Vincent's expressionless visage when he made to call to the man again.
      • I concentrated on this ominous visage that lurked behind a children's playground a few yards from where I sat.
      • Hope maintained an expressionless visage, but inside, she trembled.
      • Unlike Washington, Jefferson did not shield himself behind an impenetrable visage.
      • Her blonde hair whipped about her impassive visage as the wind dived past her and took cover behind the nearby hills.
      • His face lost its passive visage and revealed his horror and disgust.
      • It was his loud argyle socks that revealed the boyish sense of humour behind the staid visage.
      • You can do that,’ Graham said, feigning a grim visage and not entirely joking.
    2. 1.2 The manifestation, image, or aspect of something.
      the moonlit visage of the port's whitewashed buildings

      月光照耀下港口经刷白的建筑物的外观。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The featureless visage stands in odd contrast to the crisp focus of every other detail in the photograph.
      • What at first looks like a landscape dotted only with fynbos quickly reveals a much more coloured visage when examined more closely.
      • When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air.
      • The town of Enniscrone has taken on a distinctly new visage in the garments of tall and beautiful, well formed Christmas trees along the main thoroughfares.
      • If looking at the stand from the oval, you're faced with a visage of plate-glass windows that lends a futuristic look.

Derivatives

  • visaged

  • adjective
    literary
    • in combination a stern-visaged old man

      一位神情严厉的老人。

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin visus 'sight', from videre 'to see'.

Rhymes

envisage

Definition of visage in US English:

visage

nounˈvizijˈvɪzɪdʒ
literary
  • 1usually in singular A person's face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features.

    〈诗/文〉面容,脸

    an elegant, angular visage

    端庄瘦削的脸庞。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He uses the visages of famous people in Wax museum 1 and 2.
    • His face, countenance, visage, none was there!
    • The unflattering signs of age on her face are emphasized, giving her visage that sense of gravitas associated with old men in old-master paintings.
    • For one thing, it lacked resemblance to the most popular photograph of the poet, featuring a youthful visage and spectacles.
    • At this time the chinos actually came with a little tag featuring Warne's smiling visage.
    • He didn't see the yellow letters of the sign turn blood red, or the cute face of the munchkin contort into the twisted visage of a vampire.
    • Now too weak to move, Willow stared in horror as Buffy's face transformed itself into the demonic visage that all vampires hid beneath the trappings of humanity.
    • The sharpness of his face drew shadows, and his unblemished visage resembled the moon, a glowing white, with shadows of gray cast upon it.
    • And feel it I do, collapsing as the dream girl turns to face me, her visage hidden by the sun's golden glare.
    • His appearance was immaculate and the sharp lines of his face cast dark shadows across his visage.
    • Eadie has one, all right: His angular visage is all wariness and hurt; he looks malnourished and scared, and tragically adult.
    • It is a wristwatch featuring the visage of Guevara, and the word ‘REVOLUTION.’
    • Dimples, especially on the chin, also increase the angularity and definition of the male face, creating the impression of a strong visage.
    • Aeron hadn't yet removed his hood, so the features of his visage remained a mystery.
    • Well, he isn't really right in front of me - his visage on a glossy poster is.
    • Argento commonly indulges in a palette of bold, primary colors and frequently lets brash red or blue gels transform his characters' features into comic strip-like visages.
    • Meanwhile, the visage of the elegant, thin-ankled man in the painting is hard to discern from a distance, since his features are enveloped by the darkness of his skin.
    • The figures of his Winged Evocations with stoic visages cast from the artist's face, stood in a line facing a vault entrance.
    • Television footage of seniors in that high school a few days later showed young visages looking directly into the face of death.
    • Pretty little Gertie's face seemed to bloat into the meaty visage of a moustached cop.
    Synonyms
    face, countenance, physiognomy, profile
    1. 1.1 A person's facial expression.
      面部表情
      there was something hidden behind his visage of cheerfulness

      他快活的面部表情背后隐藏着某种东西。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • By the end of his life his Hollywood good looks had faded, replaced by the grim visage captured in Bruce Weber's documentary film Let's Get Lost.
      • I see grimaces of pain from once smiling visages.
      • He could see her legs were weakened by the sight; Joe helped her keep her balance and engaged her in friendly conversation in an attempt to take her mind off the terrible visage of deaths manifestation.
      • While desperation was clear on their faces, his visage betrayed nothing.
      • You can do that,’ Graham said, feigning a grim visage and not entirely joking.
      • Behind the kindly visage is a fiery religious zealot.
      • Unlike Washington, Jefferson did not shield himself behind an impenetrable visage.
      • I concentrated on this ominous visage that lurked behind a children's playground a few yards from where I sat.
      • Lionel moved around so he could clearly see Vincent's expressionless visage when he made to call to the man again.
      • The expression is so unexpected on her naturally serious visage that I'm temporarily rendered speechless.
      • The main villain is Doctor Cube, who wears a white cubic helmet with a frowning visage that resembles an embittered smiley face.
      • Her face contained not an ounce of anger, the expression on her face, if anything, was a visage of pity.
      • His face lost its passive visage and revealed his horror and disgust.
      • Hope maintained an expressionless visage, but inside, she trembled.
      • Trrol saw as much apprehension as determination in their grim visages, and he read clearly, too, that they possessed little in the way of fencing skills.
      • Doyle sighed, the beautiful voice at odds with his grim visage.
      • Time's close up makes Padilla's visage appear far more sinister.
      • Her blonde hair whipped about her impassive visage as the wind dived past her and took cover behind the nearby hills.
      • It was his loud argyle socks that revealed the boyish sense of humour behind the staid visage.
      • The man's eyes widened momentarily and his nostrils flared, and then he forced his face into a blank visage.
    2. 1.2 The surface of an object presented to view.
      〈喻〉面貌;外观
      the moonlit visage of the port's whitewashed buildings

      月光照耀下港口经刷白的建筑物的外观。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If looking at the stand from the oval, you're faced with a visage of plate-glass windows that lends a futuristic look.
      • When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air.
      • What at first looks like a landscape dotted only with fynbos quickly reveals a much more coloured visage when examined more closely.
      • The featureless visage stands in odd contrast to the crisp focus of every other detail in the photograph.
      • The town of Enniscrone has taken on a distinctly new visage in the garments of tall and beautiful, well formed Christmas trees along the main thoroughfares.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin visus ‘sight’, from videre ‘to see’.

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