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Definition of Death mask
1. Noun. A cast taken from the face of a dead person.
Definition of Death mask
1. Noun. A plaster or similar cast of a person's face after death. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Death Mask
Literary usage of Death mask
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1898)
"The Kesselstadt death-mask was discovered by Dr. Ludwig Becker, librarian at the
ducal palace at A|]e ed Darmstadt, in a rag-shop at Mayence in death- 1849. ..."
2. Browere's Life Masks of Great Americans by Charles Henry Hart (1899)
"... we have but one death mask, and although it is open to much of the objection
urged against death masks generally, it is superior to any other death mask ..."
3. Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton: recorded by Isabel Moore by Laurence Hutton, Isabel Moore (1909)
"... Lord Brougham—Laurence Sterne—Lincoln and Booth- Walt Whitman—Liszt—Process
of Taking a Life or death mask—Casts of Hands That Have Done Things. ..."
4. Masks, Heads, and Faces: With Some Considerations Respecting the Rise and by Ellen Russell Emerson (1891)
"... as in the lower animal, with only that elusive difference of human potentiality.
An Aleutian death-mask obtained from the cave of ..."
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