- a variation of cicatrix.
cicatrice
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
The fall of pitiful tears, tears from the sweet blue of her guileless eyes, came hissing against the red-hot cicatrice.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
On his cheek Lucian saw the cicatrice of which Diana had spoken, and mainly by which the dead man had been falsely identified as Vrain.
From The Silent House by Fergus Hume
It is usually, indeed, the minor poetry of an age which keeps most distinctly the "cicatrice and capable impressure" of a passing literary fashion.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
The cicatrice began to make itself very visible in his face, and the debonair manner was fast vanishing.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
But despite all her visible cicatrices, her internal scars are worse.
From Newsweek ● Oct. 22, 2012
His calves still bore the cicatrices cut on them by the farrier's knife, and the major was not one to forgive an injury.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
The scars thus made have naught to do with the decorative cicatrices across the breast, before mentioned.
From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard
In the softer skin if pigmented the cicatrices are white and frequently remain so for about a year, when the pigment returns.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
The bloodless and livid skin, ploughed and wrinkled with these raised cicatrices, was drawn tightly over the cheek-bone.
From Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word