Archaic visor (esp. sense )
Origin of vizard
altered from earlier visar, variant, variety of visorvizard
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vizard
also vis·ard
noun
- A visor or mask.
- A disguise.
Origin of vizard
Alteration of obsolete vizar from Middle English viser ; see visor .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural vizards)
- (archaic) A mask worn to disguise or protect the face.
- A grotesque vizard. -Sir W. Scott
- There, then, that vizard, that superfluous case, that hid the worse and show'd the better face.-- Shakespeare, Love's Labors Lost V.ii.387
- A pretense
- To mislead and betray them under the vizard of law. - John Milton
Origin
An alteration of visor by confusion of the ending.
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