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noun

Visor n. (Written also visar, visard, vizard, and vizor)

A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.

A mask used to disfigure or disguise. "My very visor began to assume life." "My weaker government since, makes you pull off the visor."

The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.

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Etymology of 'Visor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Visor" Quotes from Famous Books

... tournament was being held in the Tilt-yard before her Majesty. Ralegh, not brooding on late rebuffs, led a gallant retinue in orange-tawny plumes. Essex had heard of Ralegh's preparations. He entered with his visor down, at the head of a larger and more magnificent troop flaunting 2000 feathers of the same colour. It must be admitted that, as Horace Walpole remarks, 'the affront is not very intelligible at present.' Apparently, he wished to produce an impression by ...

— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing

... motion he was quick as a cat. It was his wont to wear his forage-cap far down over his forehead and canted very much over the right eye, while, contrary to the fashion of that day, his dark hair fell below the visor in a sweeping and decided "bang" almost to his eyebrows, which were thick, dark brown, and low-arched. A semi-defiant backward toss of the head was the result as much perhaps of the method of wearing his cap as of any pronounced mental characteristic. ...

— Marion's Faith. • Charles King

... it in his hands, said, "By God the basin is a good one, and worth a piece of eight[445-3] if it is worth a maravedi," and handed it to his master, who immediately put it on his head, turning it round, now this way, now that, in search of the visor. Not finding it he said, "Clearly the pagan to whose measure this famous headpiece was first forged must have had a very large head; but the worst of it is half of it ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester

... Pepin pray aloud that they might be reconciled his joy and surprise knew no bounds. All armed as he was, he strode up to his kneeling brother and embraced him with tears, entreating his forgiveness for past harshnesses. When Pepin raised the prince's visor and beheld the beloved features of Karloman, his happiness was complete. Together the brothers made for their ships; not, however, till they had left valuable gifts at the shrine of the saint whose good offices had ...

— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence

... dexterity he demands—the justice-books bear witness in thy favour; no starting at scruples in his service why, who ever suspected thee of a conscience? an assurance he must have who would follow a courtier—and thy brow is as impenetrable as a Milan visor. There is but one thing I would fain ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

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