visual, n. = "visual impression; appearance"

[Jonathan Lighter]

One of the neighbors of the young woman recently rescued after being held
prisoner for eighteen years:

"They say she was living in the backyard, and that may be true, but whenever
I saw her she never gave me the visual."

JL

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"There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-Billed
Platypus"

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