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Masquerade

Masquerade (masquerade)
n.(?)
Mas`quer*ade"
[F. mascarade, fr. Sp. mascarada, or It. mascherata. See Mask.]

  1. An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.

    In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope.

  2. A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
    [Obs.]
  3. Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.

    That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. De Quincey.

  4. A Spanish diversion on horseback.

Masquerade

Masquerade (masquerade)
v. i.
Mas`quer*ade"
  1. To assemble in masks] to take part in a masquerade.
  2. To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.

    A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin. L'Estrange.

Masquerade

Masquerade (masquerade)
v. t.
Mas`quer*ade"
  1. To conceal with masks; to disguise.
    "To masquerade vice." Killingbeck.












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