visage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
    smiler; physiognomy; mug; kisser; countenance; phiz.
  2. noun the appearance conveyed by a person's face
    countenance.
    • a pleasant countenance
    • a stern visage

WordNet


Vis"age noun
Etymology
F. visage, from L. visus a seeing, a look, fr. videre, visum, to see. See Vision.
Definitions
  1. The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face. Chaucer. "A visage of demand." Shak.
    His visage was so marred more than any man. Isa. lii. 14.
    Love and beauty still that visage grace. Waller.
Vis"age transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To face. Obs. Chaucer.

Webster 1913