vizard
noun
a mask or visor.
visard
-
a variation of
vizard.
Example Sentences
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From the mask with the black visard and silver mantle.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
I did bring home a piece of my face cast in plaister, for to make a visard upon for my eyes. 2nd.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke
He speaks of one who "looks as pale as the visard of the ghost which cries so miserably at The Theatre, like an oister-wife, 'Hamlet revenge.'"
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd
London, 1679 has "Mommon, a mummer, also a company of mummers; also a visard, or mask; also a let by a mummer at dice."
From The Blunderer by Molière
Secondly, dthey harbour in their breast a curious and inquisitiue desire to know such things as be not fitting and conuenient, and so are oftentimes intangled with the bare shew and visard of goodnesse.
From A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
