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Masquerade   /mˌæskərˈeɪd/   Listen
Masquerade

noun
1.
A party of guests wearing costumes and masks.  Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party.
2.
A costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party.  Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume.
3.
Making a false outward show.
verb
(past & past part. masqueraded; pres. part. masquerading)
1.
Take part in a masquerade.
2.
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



... darling is superior to the nonsense of other girls—that she will be herself always, and doesn't need any masquerade of wedding finery." ...
— On the Church Steps • Sarah C. Hallowell

... the Savoyard organs, horns, and voices, the riot and roar of the multitude, and the frequent and desperate quarrels of the different sections, who challenged each other to fight during this lingering period, were absolutely distracting. Versailles looked alternately like one vast masquerade, like an encampment of savages, and like a city taken by storm. Wild work, too, had been done during ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various

... Vesper custom I saw for myself every time I took an evening drive. We witnessed a very gorgeous procession on the feast of the Epiphany. All the city functionaries, the military, the priests, bands of music, and a masquerade of the three kings on horseback, surrounded by troops of children beautifully dressed in white and scattering flowers, passed through the streets to a church, into which they all poured, the three horses riding ...
— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

... I," went on Jerry, "that is, until yesterday. The committee just decided upon it. You see, the girls always give a fancy dress party, but not always a masquerade. This year a freshman who was on the committee proposed that it would be a good stunt to make everyone dress as a character in some old fairy tale. The rest of the committee liked the idea, so you had better get busy and hunt up ...
— Marjorie Dean High School Freshman • Pauline Lester

... spot with this impression had I not chanced to notice that this stem, so beset with conspicuous thorns, was not consistent in its foliage. My suspicions aroused, I suddenly realized that my thorny stem was in truth merely a bittersweet branch in masquerade, and that I had been "fooled" by a sly midget who had been an old-time acquaintance of my boyhood, but whom I ...
— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson


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