death mask

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

Related topics: Death

ˈdeath mask noun [countable]  MXa model of a dead person’s face, made by covering their face with a soft substance and letting it become hard 遗容面模

Examples from the Corpus

death mask• A death mask of pieces badly assembled.• The whereabouts of Flaxman's death mask was not known, and nothing came of the suggestion.• It also includes a grainy, retouched photograph of the man holding the death mask in his hands.• There is the coroner from Philadelphia, Gold, with the death mask of the little boy.• The body is dressed in jewelled vestments, the face covered with a silver mask fashioned from a wax death mask.

ˈdeath mask nounChineseSyllable  

Corpus of covering a dead by person’s model a their face, made

death mask
ˈdeath mask noun [countable]
a model of a dead person’s face, made by covering their face with a soft substance and letting it become hard

death maskBrE /ˈdeθ mɑːsk/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdeθ mæsk/ 🔊 nouna 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 （用柔软物质压在死人脸上，变硬后取出制成的）死人面部模型