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death mask
noun
- a cast taken of a person's face after death.
death mask
Word History and Origins
Origin of death mask1
Example Sentences
Giani says the real death mask belongs to a private collector, which is what Brown insinuates in his book.
Philip Shenon reports on the desperate drive to keep the golden death mask and Egypt's other treasures from harm.
She possesses an almost Cubist face, with a receded hairline and crooked grimace, that looks like a death mask.
It is only my own self—myself gone behind and peeping round a corner, grinning back sympathy at me from its sickening death-mask!
Priceless objects had been found, including the King's death mask of painted gold.
For one horrid moment it seemed to Wade that the fixed grimace of the death-mask expressed hideous mirth.
His eyelids closed and his face became rigid as a death mask of a man dead in passion.
There was a death-mask of papier-maché on the back of his head with appropriate funereal drapings down the body.
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