masquerade
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masquerade englanniksi
An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
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(RQ:Pope Works)
The act of wearing a mask or up|dressing up in a costume for, or as if for, a masquerade ball.
An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display.
(quote-journal)|month=July|year=1842|volume=LII|issue=CCCXXI|page=2|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=n286AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2|column=1|oclc=1781863|passage=(w) in the youth of (w), (w) and Clodius Pulcher|Clodius in his middle age, (w) in his old age, have all been left to operate on the modern reader's feelings precisely through that masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome.
A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask or masque.
A Spanish entertainment or military exercise in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes.
To take part in a masquerade; to assemble in masks and costumes; to wear a disguise.
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
To off as a different person or a person with qualities that one does not possess; also, to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
(quote-web), the human missile of American intelligence that (w) has been popping back in to play for more than 20 years now, is masquerading as a mysterious terrorist, the perfectly named John Lark, to buy back some plutonium he’s lost to a cabal of doomsday extremists.
To conceal (someone) with, or as if with, a mask; to disguise.