Masquerade

Definition of Masquerade

Mas`quer`ade´

n.	1.
	1.	An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. - Pope.
	2.	A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
	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.
v. i.	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.
v. t.	1.	To conceal with masks; to disguise.

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