visard

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɪzə(ɹ)d/

Verb

visard (third-person singular simple present visards, present participle visarding, simple past and past participle visarded)

To mask.

Noun

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

Related terms

vizard, vizzard

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for visard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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