physiognomy

The nude of the 19th century was often a tool for anatomical study: an intellectualized and idealized approach to physiognomy.

As George Eliot says: “We get the fonder of our houses if they have a physiognomy of their own, as our friends have.”

His legs are thin, his tail bare, his physiognomy dark, and his skin as black as his hair.

I find, for one thing, she had given much of her physiognomy to the Friedrich now born.

Hollister, however, had not come there to make a study of Mr. Lewis' physiognomy or manner.

One finds in Van Dyck no such expressively nervous physiognomy.