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Definition of masquerade:

  • (noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
  • (noun) a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party
  • (noun) making a false outward show; "a beggar's masquerade of wealth"
  • (verb) take part in a masquerade
  • (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not;

Sentence Examples:

Second jubilee masquerade.

We are to have a fairy-tale masquerade.

It was egotism masquerading as altruism.

Other pastimes are carnivals and masquerades.

What a witless masquerade is this seeing!

His waistcoats masquerade under more poetic pseudonyms.

It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade.

My angel forgets the Chinese Masquerade.

They cannot advantageously masquerade in Radical clothes.

No mean purpose lurked under my masquerade.

He also gave himself to masquerades and charades.

They appeared to be farmers masquerading as miners.

He would think it was some diabolical masquerade.

The expedition seemed a fierce but whimsical masquerade.

The masquerade comports itself with tolerable success.

Louis masquerade, once more adorns her lovely form.

Lear might have masqueraded as the Headless Horseman.

A villainous personality, masquerading under an assumed name.

Her Highness is led into the masquerade room.

At the masquerade ball we each wore special clothing.

A masquerade might have been more gloomy and depressing.

Has not masqueraded as a gypsy all along!

Five weeks have passed since the fateful masquerade.

Now, there was no masquerading in foreign finery.

Nor is it wholly the masquerade of unaccustomed clothes.

Since the masquerade she has cordially hated me.

He was once for bringing courtiers in masquerade into Arcadia.

That you are going to masquerade at a carnival ball?

The masquerading and carnival amusements are at an end.

Was this a real prince masquerading in dingy apparel?

She married a French valet masquerading as a duke.

Valentine masquerade was always a gala one on the campus.

Every officer and every enlisted man was masquerading.

It seemed to be a grand masquerade, or a tremendous burlesque.

"And the hussy masquerades as a lady," she sneered.

The bon vivant, the connoisseur, was a tenacious masquerade.

Each was clad in a most extravagant and ridiculous masquerade.

Of course, she would have to see the masquerading trickster.

She looked like an audacious girl in a dashing boy masquerade.

Nature loves a masquerade as much as she abhors a vacuum.

Even the French officers took part in this absurd masquerade.

He found masquerading still a popular pastime in the city.

Be not beguiled by pity masquerading in the guise of sympathy.

"I have always been extravagantly fond of acting and of masquerades."

Let festivities, games, masquerades, and spectacles be set on foot.

Platonic affection, so-called, is but confluent smallpox masquerading as measles.

The fourth act is enlivened by a masquerade and a murder.

Returning from a masquerade, a domino over his arm, stood Falconer.

What will our posterity think of our masquerading in old clothes?

He smiled like a mischievous young archangel, masquerading in Service kit.

"How dare you masquerade in those disreputable clothes and frighten us?"

Was proverbial, and his renaming of the masquerade a decade old.

Personal ambitions and animosities masqueraded in the garb of religious differences.

It's none of my business if you chose to masquerade as a gypsy.

Their gnawing hunger drove them all into agreeing to the masquerade.

The public masquerade balls, which then take place, allure all classes.

Lear must be the person who masquerades as the Headless Horseman.

Another popular pastime during the festival of sowing is a masquerade.

The masquerade had its ludicrous as well as its terrible side.

I think the earth enjoyed it as a sort of masquerading frolic.

Montague had so successfully masqueraded to carry out her various swindling operations.

Who are you, ruffian, and to what end is this masquerade assumed?

I have arranged an impromptu masquerade by moonlight on the terrace (period).

On the ensuing week there was a great masquerade at the palace.

It was a curious contrast to the motley, masquerading crowd just outside.

Leo, yours is pride, masquerading in the dun garb of 'religious duty'.

It wasn't his headache, because he was merely masquerading as a crewman.

Forbes did not share Warren's leniency toward her summer's masquerade.

We must not be misled by "false, specious idealism masquerading as progress".

Slaves, puppets, automata who were content to masquerade in the guise of men!

Some more courageous freedman occasionally makes a bona fide ghost of this masquerade.

The princess must masquerade in a man's clothing for some high purpose.

The masquerade extended even to the trappings of the horses and sledges.

"Arrest that woman, who is masquerading in the clothes of a man!"

In one place it was venting its rage upon a heap of masquerade clothing.

What gave most truly the color of a masquerade was the unmasking.

A little peasant masquerading as a dazzled moth around the bright lights.

And is now masquerading in this town, disguised as a Second Trombone.

Your red handkerchief and hat do you good service in your masquerade, mademoiselle.

I thought you might have been some masquerading Dutchmen from a dodging gunboat.

Instantly the domino quitted the room, and retired from the masquerade.

Accordingly, the masquerade, and the dances performed yesterday, begin at daybreak.

In fact, he seemed to be enjoying the racket and also the masquerade.

To-day, such a costume seems to them, and rightfully so, a masquerade.

For Lucy's glee and my masquerading weighed with equal heaviness upon me.

It is not a common thing for a nobleman to masquerade as a commoner.

"Right, old man; but again, why masquerading in mufti on this hooker?"

Then she strode forward, an insidiously victorious temptation masquerading as strong will.

A species, I hasten to point out, customarily masquerading as ordinary human beings.

Was there not a touch of genius in her pitiable yet dauntless masquerade?

They work in mouthpieces of business interests masquerading as newspapers or electronic media.

This he sheds for a domino, in which he masquerades for a time.

Surely that confounded thing can't be my venerable old friend in masquerade!

I had obeyed my mother's entreaties, I had agreed to figure in this masquerade.

Two hours later the grand masquerade cycle carnival was at its height.

And then the climax flitted into sight, masquerading as a barrel of claret.

The yell of laughter and applause at the ludicrous masquerade shook the hills.

They all crowd around Lorenzo, whom this funereal sort of masquerade bothers extremely.

Much babble about social ills and possible reforms still masquerades as social science.

She believed that it was only gross passion masquerading in attractive, delusive colors.