cicatrice

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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

"This proves the truth of it!" cried Fandor, pointing to a cicatrice on the back of the neck of the murdered man: it was the clear mark of where an abscess had been.

From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Souvestre, Pierre

Slowly up the course of this insignificant cicatrice old Jim ascended, his hands still held beneath his arms, his long mustache and his grizzled beard blown awry in the breeze.

From Bruvver Jim's Baby by Mighels, Philip Verrill

The cicatrice began to make itself very visible in his face, and the debonair manner was fast vanishing.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony

The fire has seared, the cicatrice remains—though to be hidden away, of course.

From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Gambier-Parry, Ernest