Cast made of a person's face, hands or other body parts during the person's life.
1Honoring Lincoln's busy schedule, Volk decided to keep the sessions to a minimum by beginning with a life mask.
2A plaster bust, done from a life mask, if not from Le Moine's bust in marble (1750), was thought the best likeness by Dr. King.
3All the characters wore larger-than- life masks, spangled with jewels.
4Life masks are made by covering a subject s face with strips of plaster gauze dipped in water.
5The activities of godless lives mask the real spiritual death, which is the condition of every soul that is separate from God.
6In effect, photographs of the departed can be regarded as death masks, cast from the body, but certainly not life masks cast from the soul.
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