ecchymotic mask

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A dusky discoloration of the head and neck occurring when the trunk has been subjected to sudden and extreme compression, as in traumatic asphyxia.

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A spandex mask stretched over his face, covering his eyes and nose.
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Mailer would argue, for example, that timidity does more harm to the novelist than donning a mask of extreme self-confidence.
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In fact, what this map really showed was the fallacy of aggregates – and how statistics can mask real cultural shifts.
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Onion routers refers to the TOR network, a system that allows users to mask their location and communicate anonymously online.
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One gets the sense that they are wearing a mask to confuse their readers, and even to evade them.
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For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
He laid it upon the floor, and took out a plaster mask, and brushing and blowing off the saw-dust, held it up.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
I must make no mistake, and blunder into a national type of features, all wrong; if I make your mask, it must do us credit.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
He flourished in one hand his red mask and in the other a pompon which he had extracted from his pocket.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Aristide in a hideous red mask and with a bag of confetti under his arm, plunged with enthusiasm into the revelry.
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