Definition of "visard"

visard

/ˈvɪzə(ɹ)d/

verb
third-person singular simple present visards, present participle visarding, simple past and past participle visarded
1. To mask.
noun
plural visards
1. A mask.
  Quotations
  Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue ;Nor never come in visard to my friend
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]
2. An oval mask of black velvet, worn by travelling women in the 16th century to protect their skin from sunburn.