Definition of "semblance"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural semblances
the way something looks; appearance; form
Quotations
England, seated far north in the turbid sea, now visits my dreams in the semblance of a vast and well-manned ship, which mastered the winds and rode proudly over the waves.
1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 2