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death mask
noun
- a cast taken of a person's face after death.
death mask
noun
- a cast of a person's face taken shortly after death Compare life mask
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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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