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

Nigel turned pale as his eyes rested upon the cicatrice, showing like a whitish seam through the slight coating of blood.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne

“It’s five years ago, at the affair of the Tchanak-Kampo, and here’s a little reminiscence of it;” and, throwing back the sleeve of his right arm, he showed the cicatrice of a great sabre cut. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis

He was slashed with a wide cicatrice of livid scar tissue from one cheekbone across his nose and down to the button of his jaw on the other side.

From Valley of the Croen by Tarbell, Lee

Lean but on a Rush, The cicatrice and capable impressure Thy palm some moment keeps.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson