Masquerade (Golden Dawn album)
WordNet
noun
(1) Making a false outward show
"A beggar's masquerade of wealth"
(2) A costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party
(3) A party of guests wearing costumes and masks
verb
(4) Pretend to be someone or something that you are not
"He is masquerading as an expert on the Internet"
"This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty"
(5) Take part in a masquerade
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Etymology
From mascarade ( mascarada), from mascarata (mascherata). See “mask”.
Noun
- A party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
- In courtly balls and midnight masquerades - Alexander Pope
- A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See “mask”
- Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
- I was invited to the masquerade at their home.
- That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome - Thomas de Quincey
- A Spanish diversion on horseback.
Verb
- To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
- I'm going to masquerade as the wikipede. What are you going to dress up as?
- To frolic or disport in disguise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
- He masqueraded as my friend until the truth finally came out.
- A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin - Roger L'Estrange
- To conceal with masks; to disguise.
- To masquerade vice - Killingbeck