death mask
a cast taken of a person's face after death.
Origin of death mask
1- Compare life mask.
Words Nearby death mask
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How to use death mask in a sentence
Giani says the real death mask belongs to a private collector, which is what Brown insinuates in his book.
Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’ Sparks Dante Fever in Florence | Barbie Latza Nadeau | May 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPhilip 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!
There and Back | George MacDonaldPriceless objects had been found, including the King's death mask of painted gold.
The Egyptian Cat Mystery | Harold Leland Goodwin
For one horrid moment it seemed to Wade that the fixed grimace of the death-mask expressed hideous mirth.
King Spruce, A Novel | Holman DayHis eyelids closed and his face became rigid as a death mask of a man dead in passion.
Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) | F. Marion CrawfordThere was a death-mask of papier-maché on the back of his head with appropriate funereal drapings down the body.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes | Israel Zangwill
British Dictionary definitions for death mask
a cast of a person's face taken shortly after death: Compare life mask
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