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/mˈæskɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Mask v. t. (past & past part. masked; pres. part. masking)

To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor. "They must all be masked and vizarded."

To disguise; to cover; to hide. "Masking the business from the common eye."

(Mil.)

(a)

To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

(b)

To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortress by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.

Mask v. i.

To take part as a masker in a masquerade.

To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.

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Etymology of 'Masking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Masking" Quotes from Famous Books

... he, masking under a severe manner whatever he felt. 'The meeting is awkward, and ought not to have occurred, especially if as I suppose, you are shortly to be married to James Hayward. But it cannot be helped now. You had no idea ...

— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy

... fiction insists ever on figuring to me as the stage or theatre for the second half, and I have in general given so much space to making the theatre propitious that my halves have too often proved strangely unequal. Thereby has arisen with grim regularity the question of artfully, of consummately masking the fault and conferring on the false quantity the brave appearance of ...

— The Tragic Muse • Henry James

... of achievement, from what is simply bad. In literature, as in opinion, it was only when moral faults were mingled with intellectual defects that he became censorious. He detested literary humbug—a pretence of knowledge without the reality, a show of philosophy masking poverty of thought; the vanity of quaintness, the "ring of false metal," the glorification ...

— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell

... miles the river-bank shines with sunlit canvas—tents, tents everywhere, as far as eye can see, a mushroom growth masking the older cabins. The water-front swarms with craft, scows and canoes, birch, canvas, peterboro; the great bateaux of the northern lumberman, neat little skiffs, clumsy rafts; heavy "double-enders," whip-sawed ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... to be skeptical concerning any act masking as purely philanthropic. But the huge man wisely ...

— Winner Take All • Larry Evans

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