(poetic/literary)a person's face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features (诗/文)面容,脸 an elegant, angular visage. 端庄瘦削的脸庞。 ■a person's facial expression 面部表情 there was something hidden behind his visage of cheerfulness. 他快活的面部表情下面隐藏着什么。 ■(figurative)the surface of an object presented to view (喻)面貌;外表 the moonlit visage of the port's whitewashed buildings. 月光下港口粉白建筑物的外表。
派生 visaged adjective
一位神情严厉的老人 [in combination]a stern-visaged old man.
语源
Middle English: via Old French from Latin visus 'sight', from videre 'to see'