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Appearance   /əpˈɪrəns/   Listen
Appearance

noun
1.
Outward or visible aspect of a person or thing.  Synonym: visual aspect.
2.
The event of coming into sight.
3.
Formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action.  Synonyms: appearing, coming into court.
4.
A mental representation.
5.
The act of appearing in public view.  "It was Bernhardt's last appearance in America"
6.
Pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression.  Synonym: show.  "That ceremony is just for show"



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"Appearance" Quotes from Famous Books



... indeed!" said Jno. Peters. "I have only met her once, when she came into our office to see Mr. Samuel, but her personality and appearance stamped themselves so forcibly on my mind, that I know I am not mistaken. I am sure it is my duty to tell you exactly what happened when I was left alone with her in the office. We had hardly exchanged a dozen words, Mr. Bennett, when—"—here Jno. Peters, modest ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... vagrant peasantry which had drifted westward to avoid competition with slave labor. The niece, Nancy, has been reputed illegitimate. And though tradition derives her from the predatory amour of an aristocrat, there is nothing to sustain the tale except her own appearance. She had a bearing, a cast of feature, a tone, that seemed to hint at higher social origins than those of her Hanks relatives. She had a little schooling; was of a pious and emotional turn of mind; enjoyed those amazing "revivals" ...
— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
... explained to him. "Probably in the most expensive and luxurious mansions they have a flower-maid. A kind of Persephone who comes up from the underworld with her arms full of gerania and calceolarias. 'Housemaid,' she would put it in the advertisements, 'upper (where manservant kept); tall, of good appearance; free; several years' experience; understands vawses.' And in houses such as these the cinerarias would never wither or die. Every what-not would be a riotous profusion of et-ceteras from week's-end ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 • Various
... eyes were directed. His hat was off, and the expression of his face was calm and resigned; the dignity of conscious innocence was there. He turned his fine dark eyes with a pitying glance on the upturned faces of the gazing crowd; the hisses and groans with which they had greeted his first appearance were hushed; a death-like stillness fell upon that vast assemblage, and many a rugged cheek was moistened ...
— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie
... thoughtful aesthetic face which gave to its intellectuality a touch of spirituality. One of the members of the club said, later on in the smoking room, that Maddison seemed to him to realize one's idea of St. Augustine in evening clothes. So far as appearance went the ...
— The New Tenant • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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