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MASQUERA'DE, n.
MASQUERA'DE, v.i. To go in disguise.
MASQUERA'DE, v.t. To put in disguise.
An assembly of persons wearing masks, and
amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other
diversions.
In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope. A dramatic performance by actors in masks;
a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
[Obs.] 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. A Spanish diversion on
horseback.
To assemble in masks] to take part in a
masquerade.
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. To conceal
with masks; to disguise.
"To masquerade vice."
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