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Definition of False face
1. Noun. A mask worn as part of a masquerade costume.
Lexicographical Neighbors of False Face
Literary usage of False face
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Marine Engineering: Comprising the Designing, Construction, and by Albert Edward Seaton (1890)
"For the same reason that liners are fitted to the cylinders, the cylinder face
needs a false face. This is usually made of hard, close-grained cast iron, ..."
2. A Pocket Book of Marine Engineering Rules and Tables: For the Use of Marine by Albert Edward Seaton, Henry Morrison Rounthwaite (1894)
"The slide-valve faces of cylinders, when a false face is fitted, should :e made
of thickness given by the rule,— Rule 34. Thickness of cylinder valve-face ..."
3. Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society (1908)
"... (13) False-Face Dancers Arriving at the Council House, (14) False-Face Dancers
Sitting in the Council House, (15) The Doorkeepers' Dance. ..."
4. A Pocket-book of Marine Engineering Rules and Tables: For the Use of Marine by Albert Edward Seaton, Henry Morrison Rounthwaite (1922)
"The slide-valve faces of cylinders, when a false face is fitted, should be made
of thickness given by the rule,— Rule 50. Thickness of cylinder valve-face ..."
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