Grimace
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A grimace is a facial expression. It is a distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, disgust, disapproval and pain; a smirk; a made-up face.
Etymology
From French fr, from Middle French frm, from Old French grimace, grimuche, from grime (“mask”), from Old Frankish *grīma (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask, helmet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to stroke, rub”). Cognate with Old English grīma (“mask, visor, helmet, spectre, apparition”). More at grime.
See also
- Caricature
- Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
- Les Grimaces, a series of humoristic engravings published by French artist Léopold Boilly in 1823
- Old Toothless Man, the informal title to a photo from a photo session by French neurologist Duchenne de Boulogne.
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