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disguise
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Word definitions for disguise in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "strange style of dress" (especially one meant to deceive), from disguise (v.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disguise \Dis*guise"\, n. A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties. There is no passion which steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Disguise is a 2008 novel by the Irish writer Hugo Hamilton set in Germany.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something; "the theatrical notion of disguise is always associated with catastrophe in his stories" [syn: camouflage ] any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another. 2 (context figuratively English) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath. 3 The act of disguising, notably as a ploy vb. 1 (context transitive ...
Usage examples of disguise.
I, a law-abiding citizen, a humble bookseller, should now be descending the steps of a brothel in the middle of Alsatia, at nightfall, in disguise.
Behind him he had expected to see a horde of demons disguised as apes and panthers.
In nightmares and in prophecy Apollonius had seen him disguising himself as a crippled beggar during the day, so that no one would take undue notice of him, then changing shape in the dusk and stalking the Ephesians by night, a great monster half-wolf, half-man, a lycanthrope who reveled in the killings.
He and Izzy had decided that was the safest disguise for him, a mountain yokel on the far edges of Aramaic country.
An archenemy of mine once used it as a disguise in an attempt to deceive me.
The captain also stopped in front of Jacques Ardoise, who stared back, unable to disguise his fear.
And if the sudra hunter was just an Asura in disguise, how did he have the use of brahman?
Disguised as a Venetian nobleman, he proposed to sit for his portrait to that Antonella who first brought the secret from Flanders, and while Antonella worked with unsuspicious openness, Gian Bellini watched the process and stole the secret.
At the masked ball, he speaks in confidence to the disguised Claudio as though addressing Benedick, warning him that Don Pedro seems romantically interested in the young lady for himself.
Although he made no attempt to hide his connection to the ambassador, Bertillon was careful to disguise the nature of that connection.
One-eyed Bogan intended to shave and join the Army disguised as a lassie.
Now she understood that Halagar was Boolean in disguise and thus her true master.
Stop sounding like a brickie on a scaffold, Petro - I need to be disguised.
Nobody can disguise style, Brookie, and what happened at The Black Horse reeks of their style.
The pawnbroker had also sold him a limited but fairly effective disguise: gray hair, spectacles, mouth wadding, plastic buckteeth which subtly transfigured his lip line.