Definition of "personage"

personage

/ˈpɝsənɪd͡ʒ/

noun
plural personages
1. A person, especially one who is famous or important.
  Quotations
  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.
  1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, page 230
2. character (in a film, book, play, etc.)
3. The creation of corporate persons named after living people.
4. Character represented; external appearance; persona.
  Quotations
  But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon,What ſtature wields he, and what perſonage?
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)