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- Personage - n. - Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
- Personage - n. - Character assumed or represented.
- Personage - n. - A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall.
- Hero - n. - The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
- Picaresque - a. - Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
- Personage - n. - A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall.
- Scaramouch - n. - A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.
- Canopy - n. - A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.
- Hero - n. - A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person.
- Manor - n. - The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.