vizard

American  

[viz-erd] / ˈvɪz ərd /

Or visard

noun

1. Archaic. a mask or visor.

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vizard British  

/ ˈvɪzəd /

noun

1. archaic a means of disguise; mask; visor

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Other Word Forms

• unvizarded adjective
• vizarded adjective

Etymology

Origin of vizard

1545–55; variant of visor; see -ard

Example Sentences

I have seen men strive for rectitude, and in the end, take off the vizard of right to discover only self there.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Roscius is said to have always played in a vizard, on account of a disfiguring obliquity of vision with which he was afflicted.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

Secrets of State are points we must not know; This vizard is thy privy-council now, Thou royal riddle, and in everything The true white prince, our hieroglyphic king!

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)

Love himself wore a vizard, and the dances were very slow and stately.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

Or who sooth not Rome, that is their Nineveh, which sometime was painted with fairest colours, but now, her vizard being palled off, is both better seen and less set by? 

From The Apology of the Church of England by Bacon, Ann, Lady