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  The general sense “outward form, appearance” is now literary, as in ''le Chevalier à la Triste Figure'', a calque of the Spanish name of Don Quixote; it also meant “behaviour” (about 1050) until the classical period, whence ''faire figure'' and ''faire bonne, mauvaise figure''.^(DHLF 1992) From the 12th century it named a drawing, then a portrait or statue (1269), a figure in arithmetic (1269–78), in geometry (1546) and in dance (1680).^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(BHVF) Latin ''figura'' “sign, symbol” was taken up early (1121–34, ''par figure'' “allegorically”), and figures of speech belong to the same line.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)
  
− Specialized from “form”, the word was used from the mid-16th century of the face and of the air one has (1662, Molière), and, from the 18th century it replaced ''visage'' and ''face'' in everyday speech, Bloch and Wartburg note that the sense “face” spread over the whole Gallo-Romance area.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The sense “exemplary case” (about 1375) led to “remarkable person” (Montaigne, 1595).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)
+ Specialized from “form”, the word was used from the mid-16th century of the face and of the air one has (1662, Molière), and, from the 18th century it replaced ''visage'' and ''face'' in everyday speech;^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Bloch and Wartburg note that the sense “face” spread over the whole Gallo-Romance area.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The sense “exemplary case” (about 1375) led to “remarkable person” (Montaigne, 1595).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)
  
  ==Timeline==