per|son|age

per|son|age
per|son|age «PUR suh nihj», noun.
1. a person of importance, distinction, or high rank: »

Who am I indeed? Perhaps a personage in disguise (Charlotte Brontë).

2. a person: »

a grandfatherly sort of personage (Hawthorne).

3. a character in a book or play or in history: »

The hero is the chief personage in that mystery story.

4. the impersonation of such a character: »

to assume the personage of Caesar or Hamlet.

5. Archaic. the body; bodily frame.
[< Old French personage < persone person + -age -age. See etym. of doublet parsonage. (Cf.parsonage)]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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