"personage" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person who is distinguished or important or well-known. For example, "The President is a well-known personage in politics."
Marwa Sherbini, an Egyptian immigrant, was stabbed to death in a German courtroom by the man she had brought to trial for insulting her as a terrorist, because she wore a headscarf.But this month the veil's opponents claimed a victory, won by no less a personage than Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Cairo's 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old
It is comforting to know that in the Royal Box the lucky few still sit in dark green Lloyd Loom wicker chairs, from which (of course) they must rise which cannot be easy whenever a royal personage arrives.
Although his pictures continued to be greatly valued through the 18th and early 19th centuries, Vermeer was then almost lost as a historical personage, until his oeuvre was painstakingly put back together in the 1860s by a French critic, Théophile Thoré.
A similar personage now haunts welfare reform: the ordinary or average man, whose lifestyle, say David Cameron and his ministers, should define the limit of state support for benefit recipients.
A new personage, the Brazilian multinational, has appeared.
He was a masterbuilder with an unmatched feel for spaces and materials, but also a natural showman who fashioned a largely mythical personage that it is all too easy to be misled by.Le Corbusier began publishing a comprehensive record of his work in sketches, designs and photographs when still in his 40s.
Scott Eyman knows the questions but leaves it mostly to others to say what Wayne's outsize screen personage meant.
The translation of the Philokalia, a collection of Greek monastic texts, into Old Slavic by the starets Paissy Velitchkovsky (1722 94) contributed to a revival of starchestvo ("staretsism"), which was furthered by the great St. Seraphim of Sarov (1759 1833) and the startsy of the monastery of Optina Pustyn, who inspired the personage of Zossima in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov.
To the late Isaac Deutscher, the author of biographies of Trotsky and Stalin who, like Carr, broadly accepts Trotsky's version of Stalin as a somewhat mediocre personage Stalin represents a lamentably deviant element in the evolution of Marxism.
With Kermān and Tabrīz, Kāshān has been the principal source for the collector of special pieces personage rugs, symbolic rugs, and ornate prayer rugs otherwise unusual in Iran.
As an important source of patronage, the panegyric now assuming a more bipartite structure, extolling both the state of the people ruled and the glory of the ruler's own personage became the major mode of expression in qaṣīdah form until the 20th century.
