Face Mask

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:

    “Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here.”
    —Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)

    “I met Murder on the way—
    He had a mask like Castlereagh.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)