Strictly, the expression face mask is tautological and means "mask", because masks by definition go on the face; but it is sometimes used to mean:
- Respirator
- Among divers, diving mask
- Face mask (gridiron football), the metal grid face protecter on his helmet, and the penalizable foul of grasping it during play
Famous quotes containing the words face and/or mask:
“For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead,
I look where he lies white-faced and still in the
coffin—I draw near,
Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the
coffin.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)