Meanings
- pluralplural of countenance
Portraits are but the mirrors of lovely countenances.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 115
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