personage means A person, especially one who is famous or important. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 81 out of 100.
personage is pronounced /ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒ/.
Etymology
From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage; by surface analysis, person + -age (compare French suffix -age).
noun
- A person, especially one who is famous or important.“I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.”
- A character (in a film, book, play, etc).
- The creation of corporate persons named after living people.
- Character represented; external appearance; persona.“But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon,
What ſtature wields he, and what perſonage?”