visard
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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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), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue ;
Nor never come in visard to my friend
- An oval mask of black velvet, worn by travelling women in the 16th century to protect their skin from sunburn.
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References[edit]
- “visard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.