18 May 2013

visage

[viz-ij]

noun

1. the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance.
2. aspect; appearance.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to vis face (< Latin vīsum sight, appearance ( Vulgar Latin: face), noun use of neuter past participle of vidēre to see) + -age -age

Related forms
vis·aged, adjective

Synonyms
1. physiognomy, image. See face.

Today’s aphorism

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

– Marian Wright Edelman

On this day

18 May 1981 – Volcanic eruption from Mt St Helens in Washington State, USA, killing 57 people.

18 May 1989 – Over 1,000,000 people march in Beijing, demanding democracy. The Chinese government violently suppressed the protests, bringing them to an end on 4 June 1989 following the massacre of hundreds of protestors in Tiananmen Square.