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Mas`quer*ade" (?), n. [F. mascarade, fr. Sp. mascarada, or It. mascherata. See Mask.]
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1. An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
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In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope.
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2. A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4. [Obs.]
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3. Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
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That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. De Quincey.
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4. A Spanish diversion on horseback.
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Mas`quer*ade", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Masqueraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Masquerading.]
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1. To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
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2. To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
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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.
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Mas`quer*ade", v. t. To conceal with masks; to disguise. “To masquerade vice.” Killingbeck.
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