SEMBLANT • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Semblant

... translation, professedly done from the Latin. Now it is remarkable that the Scotch translation is full of Gallicisms, and is clearly a translation from a French original; such as make fault, faire des fautes; make it seem that I believe, faire semblant de le croire; make brek, faire breche; this is my first journey, c'est ma premiere journee; have you not desire to laugh? n'avez vous pas envie de rire; the place will hold unto the death, la place tiendra jusqu'a la mort; he may not come forth ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume

... we wonder, follow Jealously? And were those protests hollow? - Or saw he Some semblant dame? Or can wraiths ...

— Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy