| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | vis·age |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  v z j |
| NOUN: | 1. The face or facial expression of a person; countenance. 2. Appearance; aspect: the bleak visage of winter. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from vis, from Latin v sus, appearance, from past participle of vid re, to see. See weid- in Appendix I.
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