Wax or plaster cast made of a person’s face following death.
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Examples for "life mask "
Examples for "life mask "
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.
1 They might have been those of a death mask cut in marble.
2 It looked like a death mask , the kind we'd studied in school.
3 Stuart has-again-broughtinthe bronze death mask of his first wife's face.
4 The boy's face was becoming a death mask even as Gabriel watched.
5 She placed the wrinkled cloth across her face like a death mask .
6 It could be an ancient death mask , thousands of years old.
7 The struggle to survive was carved on her twisted death mask .
8 As they watched, he unwrapped the death mask of Dante Alighieri.
9 His face altered and assumed the character of a death mask .
10 Oscar's face is a perfect death mask of shock, every muscle hanging slack.
11 Questor was eerily calm, his face composed like a death mask .
12 A true death mask is always taken from a naked man.
13 It was a death mask , a horrible countenance which cried out for vengeance!
14 The rest of his face was like a death mask .
15 The sight of that seeming death mask made her shudder.
16 In another was the pale plaster death mask of the sort popular with Victorians.
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