A party of guests wearing costumes and masks

Usage examples of masque.

But Jonson gave dramatic value to the masque, especially in his invention of the antimasque, a comedy or farcical element of relief, entrusted to professional players or dancers.

Jann Citadel that had opened the war, Parral had decided a masque was in order.

In swift and picturesque sequence the personages of the Masque pass before us.

Reach were busier than ever, nobles visiting for the masque and the rumored naming of the heir tucked into every available room and rentable house.

As it was, the laboratory that those three lonely hereticks had set up on the Masham estate seemed a masque of what Wilkins and Hooke had done as guests of John Comstock.

Kings may play Vagabonds in masques, you are now a merchant banker named Signore Punchinello.

Divine Virgin, the Queen of Field and Grove, and presented musical masques, harvest fruits and their well-groomed children to her.

Half-burning, I should explain,-was the usual fate of paupers and unfortunates, and Atella was a town celebrated for a kind of rough country masque or farce which had been performed there at the harvest festival every year from the very earliest times, Tiberius had a villa at Atella and used to attend the festival nearly every year.

Your brother tells me that we are going to the masqued ball under the direction of the marquis, and I leave you to imagine how glad I feel at the thought of spending a whole night with you.

Favrielle had spoken truly, the costuming for the Midwinter Masque that year was ornate.

Well, she thought, pushing up to a seated position with a determined look, if Lord Lucien’s servants were not going to fetch Caro for her, she would simply go to the masque and collect the baroness herself.

She had been led through the best galleries, had been taken to the chief points of view, had been shown the grandest ruins and the most glorious churches, and she had ended by oftenest choosing to drive out to the Campagna where she could feel alone with the earth and sky, away-from the oppressive masquerade of ages, in which her own life too seemed to become a masque with enigmatical costumes.

I have stood in the presence of Satan’s minion, masquing it as a young boy.