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personage

Noun

Meaning

Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.

Character assumed or represented.

A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. Kenneth Grahame

The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height. William Wordsworth

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession. Anthony Trollope

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage. Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. Anna Quindlen

Your guest is mundane, a restless personage whose thoughts are thick with greed and treachery. A demon crouches on his shoulder, named Ambition. Steven Erikson

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