death mask

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a model of the face of a person who has just died, made by pressing a soft substance over their face and removing it when it becomes hard

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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death maskEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary death maskEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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death mask