visage
VIZ-ijnounMeaning a person’s face, or the look on it
Memory hook VIS-AGE: the face shows your AGE. Grandpa’s face in the mirror shows his age: every smile line from eighty happy years. That face is his visage.
The old captain’s weathered visage broke into a wide grin.
In context The portrait showed the queen’s stern visage, but her letters reveal a warm, funny woman behind that serious face.
Similar face, countenance, features, expression
From Old French visage, “face,” from vis (face), from Latin visus, “a look, sight,” from videre (to see).