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death mask

noun

  1. a cast taken of a person's face after death.


death mask

noun

  1. a cast of a person's face taken shortly after death Compare life mask
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of death mask1

First recorded in 1875–80
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In the book, the character calls it her “death mask.”

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A model of the face of Bonnie Prince Charlie had been created using hundreds of images taken from death masks.

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A team at the University of Dundee's Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification used death masks to recreate the Scottish prince's looks.

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It appeared so lifelike that the effect was unsettling, as if I were looking at Bradford look at his own death mask.

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“She had the death mask of her mother.”

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