personage
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personage (plural personages)
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A famous or important person.
- 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230
- I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.
- 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230
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- In modern use, the noun personage is typically used with a partially redundant adjective, such as "notable" or "great"; as such, it may fairly be said to mean simply "person".
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A famous or important person
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Hyphenation: per‧so‧na‧ge
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personage n. (plural personages)
- Character in a work of fiction.
- Iago is een personage in Shakespeares Othello.
- Iago is a character in Shakespeare's Othello.
- Iago is een personage in Shakespeares Othello.