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MASQUE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does masque mean?
• MASQUE (noun)
The noun MASQUE has 1 sense:
1. a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
Familiarity information: MASQUE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A party of guests wearing costumes and masks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
mask; masque; masquerade; masquerade party
Hypernyms ("masque" is a kind of...):
party (a group of people gathered together for pleasure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "masque"):
fancy-dress ball; masked ball; masquerade ball (a ball at which guests wear costumes and masks)
Context examples
I smiled as I unfolded it, and devised how I would tease you about your aristocratic tastes, and your efforts to masque your plebeian bride in the attributes of a peeress.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This gave them the seeming of ghostly masques, undertakers in a spectral world at the funeral of some ghost.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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