semblant
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She humbled herself much among them and crouched on the ground and made semblant as though she would have cried them mercy, and gat herself as nigh the cross as she might.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
Then took he again his sword and put it up in his sheath, and made a cross in his forehead, and came to the lions, and they made semblant to do him harm.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
Sy luy fait moult beau semblant & dit en riant. and now he must tell her who he is.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
Sir Tristram made semblant as if he were sorry, and yet better knew he how it was than the king.
From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler
So when he came with his wife Anglides, the king made them fair semblant till they had dined.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
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