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death mask

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English

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L'Inconnue de la Seine - a famous death mask

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Noun

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death mask (plural death masks)

  1. A plaster or similar cast of a person's face after death.
    Coordinate term: life mask
    • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 68:
      The cave, abandoned long ago by shepherds, is draped with weird symbols, death masks, amulets and gargoyles.

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