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Masquerade

noun

A party of guests wearing costumes and masks. Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party.

A costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party. Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume.

Making a false outward show.

verb

(past & past part. masqueraded; pres. part. masquerading)

Take part in a masquerade.

Pretend to be someone or something that you are not. "This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty"

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"Masquerade" Quotes from Famous Books

... the buffalo dance alone will furnish proof sufficient to you of the sense of symbolic significances in the redman that is unsurpassed. The redman is a genius in his gift of masquerade alone. He is a genius in detail, and in ensemble, and the producer of today might learn far more from him than he can be aware of except by visiting his unique performances. The redman's notion of the theatric does not depend upon artificial ...

— Adventures in the Arts - Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets • Marsden Hartley

... When a masquerade at Ranelagh was talked of, he said to Doctor Johnson, "I shall go as a Corsican." "What!" said the Doctor, with a sudden start. "As a Corsican," Dr. Goldsmith repeated mildly. "You don't mean to say," said the Doctor to him, gazing at him with solemn sternness, ...

— Pickwickian Manners and Customs • Percy Fitzgerald

... she was, lent herself to the fashion of the day, and delighted in practical jokes and tricks. At the splendid masquerade given by the queen she continued to plague her cousin, Lady Muskerry; to confuse and expose a stupid court beauty, a Miss Blaque; and at the same time to produce on the Count de Grammont a still more powerful effect than even her charms had done. Her ...

— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton

... Eve; "for such a man is scarcely worthy of even your resentment. He is too much your inferior in principles, manners, character, station, and everything else, to render him of so much account; and then, were we to clear up this masquerade into which the chances of a ship have thrown us, we might have our scruples concerning others, as well as concerning ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... his rough rider masquerade during the Spanish-American war was his first important step towards his goal, it gained for him the governorship of the Empire state and that important office made him an influential factor in the councils of the Republican ...

— The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt • Oliver Remey

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