black-a-vised, a. north. dial.
(ˈblækəˌvaɪst)
Also -viced, -vized.
[f. black a. and F. vis face; perh. originally black-à-vis, or black o' vis; but this is uncertain.]
Dark-complexioned.
| a 1758 Ramsay Poems (1800) II. 362 (Jam.) A black-a-vic'd snod dapper fallow. 1816 Scott Old Mort. xi. 1848 C. Brontë J. Eyre (1857) xvii, I would advise her black aviced suitor to look out. 1881 Black Sunrise (ed. 5) III. 99 The fat black-a-vised Italian. |