visard
English
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[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]visard (third-person singular simple present visards, present participle visarding, simple past and past participle visarded)
- To mask.
Noun
[edit]visard (plural visards)
- A mask.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature H3, recto:
- Nor to the motion of a Schoole-boyes tongue:
Nor neuer come in vizard to my friend, […]
- An oval mask of black velvet, worn by travelling women in the 16th century to protect their skin from sunburn.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “visard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.