vizard
noun
a mask or visor.
visard
-
a variation of
vizard.
Example Sentences
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A visard for a visard! what care I What curious eye doth quote deformities?
From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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
He weareth a black visard and mantle of spotted silver, and will accompany you to the bower, from whence he delivereth the queene and her distressed damsels out of durance.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
From the mask with the black visard and silver mantle.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
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
