MASQUERADE

Masquerade

Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983.

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masquerade

Noun

  1. A party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
    In courtly balls and midnight masquerades -
  2. A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See “mask”
  3. Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
    I was invited to the masquerade at their home.
    That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome -
  4. A Spanish diversion on horseback.

Verb

  1. To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
    I'm going to masquerade as the wikipede. What are you going to dress up as?
  2. To frolic or disport in disguise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
    He masqueraded as my friend until the truth finally came out.
    A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin -
  3. To conceal with masks; to disguise.
    To masquerade vice - Killingbeck


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