semblant

/ˈsɛmblənt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French semblant. Doublet of simulant.

adj

Like; resembling.“their eyes survey The semblant shade”
Seeming, rather than real; apparent.“[C]ommands ... that there be a just real union [of Scotland and England] as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master.”

noun

One's outward appearance.“But vnder simple shew and semblant plaine / Lurckt false Duessa secretly vnseene […]”