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Webster 1913 Edition
Masquerade
1.
An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
In courtly balls and midnight
masquerades
. Pope.
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.
Masˊquer-ade′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Masqueraded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Masquerading
.] 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.
Masˊquer-ade′
,Verb.
T.
To conceal with masks; to disguise.
“To masquerade vice.” Killingbeck.
Webster 1828 Edition
Masquerade
MASQUERA'DE
, n.1.
A nocturnal assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation and other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades.
2.
Disguise. I came to visit thee in masquerade.
3.
A Spanish diversion on horseback.MASQUERA'DE
,Verb.
I.
1.
To assemble in masks.MASQUERA'DE
,Verb.
T.