noun
- the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance.
- aspect; appearance.
noun mainly literary
- face or countenance
- appearance; aspect
c.1300, from Old French visage, from vis “face, appearance,” from Latin visus “a look, vision,” from past participle stem of videre “to see” (see vision). Visagiste “make-up artist” is recorded from 1958, from French.