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

It is concealed by the paint, but remove that, and you will find it hath all the form of a cicatrice of a corresponding shape.

From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore

The cicatrice served also as a mark of mutual recognition, so that the object and plans of the leaguers should never be discussed with others.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

And he laid bare a fearful cicatrice that almost surrounded his right arm above the wrist.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James

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 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)