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

The handsome stalwart fellow, bronzed and weather-worn, his brow crossed by a deep and honourable cicatrice!

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

It is usually, indeed, the minor poetry of an age which keeps most distinctly the "cicatrice and capable impressure" of a passing literary fashion.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

On his cheek Lucian saw the cicatrice of which Diana had spoken, and mainly by which the dead man had been falsely identified as Vrain.

From The Silent House by Hume, Fergus

Since 1880, since the administration of President Hayes, the wound has been steadily healing, until it has come to seem no longer a burning sore, but an honourable cicatrice.

From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William