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Masquerade

noun

A party of guests wearing costumes and masks. Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party.

A costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party. Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume.

Making a false outward show.

verb

(past & past part. masqueraded; pres. part. masquerading)

Take part in a masquerade.

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

... Club was to give a prize masquerade ball at the Palace Garden on New Year's Night, and Hefty had decided to go. Every gentleman dancer was to get a white silk badge with a gold tassel, and every committeeman received a blue badge with "Committee" written across it in brass ...

— Van Bibber and Others • Richard Harding Davis

... form the slightest idea of the bodily ecstasy it gives me to have done with that horrible masquerade in mummy clothes," exclaimed my companion as we left the house. "To think this is the first time we have actually been ...

— Equality • Edward Bellamy

... whom Polidori met in Milan in 1816: 'Colonel Finch, an extremely pleasant, good-natured, well-informed, clever gentleman, spoke Italian extremely well, and was very well read in Italian literature. A ward of his gave a masquerade in London upon her coming of age. She gave to each a character in the reign of Queen Elizabeth to support, without the knowledge of each other; and received them in a saloon in proper style as Queen ...

— Adonais • Shelley

... when I say that no adventure is complete unless it necessitates an amount of ceremonial, the wearing of wigs, high bodices, stockings, and breeches? Every one likes to dress himself up, whether for a masquerade ball or to be enrolled in some strange order. Have you, reader, ever seen any one enrolled in any of these orders? If you have, you will excuse the little comedy and believe it to be natural—the comedy that Doris and ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

... the bottom of this business of democratic government, and found out that it was nothing more than government of any other kind. She might have known it by her own common sense, but now that experience had proved it, she was glad to quit the masquerade; to return to the true democracy of life, her paupers and her prisons, her schools and her hospitals. As for Mr. Ratcliffe, she felt no difficulty in dealing ...

— Democracy An American Novel • Henry Adams

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