Cast made of a person's face, hands or other body parts during the person's life.
1 Honoring Lincoln's busy schedule, Volk decided to keep the sessions to a minimum by beginning with a life mask .
2 A 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.
3 All the characters wore larger-than- life masks , spangled with jewels.
4 Life masks are made by covering a subject s face with strips of plaster gauze dipped in water.
5 The activities of godless lives mask the real spiritual death, which is the condition of every soul that is separate from God.
6 In 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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