death mask

1. 1.

   a cast taken from the face of a dead person

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Questions about death mask

What does death mask mean?

death mask means "a cast taken from the face of a dead person".

Is death mask a common word?

death mask is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.