the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)
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the appearance conveyed by a person's face
<noun.attribute> a pleasant countenance a stern visage
Visage \Vis"age\ (?; 48), n. [F. visage, from L. visus a seeing, a look, fr. videre, visum, to see. See {Vision}.] The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face. --Chaucer. ``A visage of demand.'' --Shak.
His visage was so marred more than any man. --Isa. lii. 14.
Love and beauty still that visage grace. --Waller.
Visage \Vis"age\ (?; 48), v. t. To face. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
By evening, the lone soldier's insectlike visage was all over the globe.
The Brezhnev mask _ complete with bushy black eyebrows, eyeglasses and wrinkles _ was selling for about $40. A visage of Stalin, selling for the same price, had a thick mustache and a large nose to mock his Georgian origins.
For one marvelous week of February, he boasted a positive message and a priestly visage and looked for all the world like a Republican giant-killer.
Her Chinese name is Kwan Ka Shen, from a family that traces itself back to Kwan Kung, a general so renowned for his uprightness that his red-faced visage adorns many a police station and shop.
T-shirts showing the faces of Bush and Gorbachev superimposed on Saddam's visage were selling for $20.