Dizard vs Vizard - What's the difference?
dizard | vizard |
(archaic) A mask worn to disguise or protect the face.
A pretense
As nouns the difference between dizard and vizard
is that dizard is a talkative fool while vizard is a mask worn to disguise or protect the face.dizard
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References
* 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notesvizard
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Alternative forms
* vizzardNoun
(en noun)- A grotesque vizard . -
- There, then, that vizard , that superfluous case, that hid the worse and show'd the better face.-- Shakespeare, Love's Labors Lost V.ii.387
- To mislead and betray them under the vizard of law. -