Crossword clues for masquerade
masquerade
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Masquerade \Mas`quer*ade"\, v. t.
To conceal with masks; to disguise. ``To masquerade vice.''
--Killingbeck.
Masquerade \Mas`quer*ade"\, n. [F. mascarade, fr. Sp. mascarada, or It. mascherata. See Mask.]
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An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
In courtly balls and midnight masquerades.
--Pope. A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4. [Obs.]
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Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome.
--De Quincey. A Spanish diversion on horseback.
Masquerade \Mas`quer*ade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Masqueraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Masquerading.]
To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
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To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin.
--L'Estrange.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "assembly of people wearing masks and disguises," from French mascarade or Spanish mascarada "masked party or dance," from Italian mascarata "a ball at which masks are worn," variant of mascherata "masquerade," from maschera (see mask (n.)). Figurative sense of "false outward show" is from 1670s.
1650s, from masquerade (n.). Related: Masqueraded; masquerading.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. 2 (context obsolete English) 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. 4 (context archaic English) A Spanish entertainment in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade. 2 (context intransitive English) To frolic or disport in disguise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not. 3 (context transitive English) To conceal with masks; to disguise.
WordNet
n. a party of guests wearing costumes and masks [syn: masque, mask]
a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party [syn: fancy dress, masquerade costume]
making a false outward show; "a beggar's masquerade of wealth"
v. take part in a masquerade
pretend to be someone or something that you are not; "he is masquerading as the expert on the Internet"; "This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty"
Wikipedia
Masquerade or Masquerader may refer to:
Masquerade is a picture book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams, published in August 1979, that sparked a treasure hunt by concealing clues to the location of a jeweled golden hare, created and hidden somewhere in Britain by Williams. The book became the inspiration for a genre of books known today as armchair treasure hunts.
Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983.
Masquerade is the ninth album by German band Running Wild. It is the first in a trilogy of a theme of good versus evil, continued with The Rivalry and concluded with Victory. The album has sold over 130,000 worldwide and is the worst selling Running Wild album of all time.
Masquerade is the third studio album released by American hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. The album was released on July 18, 2002. The album was one of the first albums released by Columbia Records that could not be played on a PC or Mac. The album features the singles "Two Wrongs", "Pussycat" and "Knockin' On Heaven's Door". Tom Jones makes a guest appearance on the album, singing his rendition of "Pussycat".
Masquerade is the second single by Kaya (ex- Schwarz Stein) released on September 6th, 2006. The single peaked at 13th on the Oricon Indies charts during the first week of its release.
The title track "Masquerade" is an upbeat jazz number while the coupling track "Psycho Butterfly" pulls Kaya back to his electronic/digital-gothic roots. Like his first single "Kaleidoscope", both tracks on "Masquerade" were composed by ex-Velvet Eden's KALM.
Masquerade is a 1988 American romance mystery thriller film directed by Bob Swaim and starring Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Kim Cattrall, and Doug Savant. Written by Dick Wolf, the film is about a recently orphaned millionairess who falls in love with a young yacht racing captain who isn't completely truthful with her about his past. The film was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best (Mystery) Motion Picture in 1989.
Masquerade are a Swedish rock band established in Autumn 1988. They released their debut album in 1992 and have since released four further albums.
Masquerade - the Performance Group is a Chennai based English theatre group. It is one of the few theatre groups in Chennai that survive without commercial financial sponsorship or funding from business houses or the likes, backed by public faith and smaller donorships from patrons, parents of tweens and teens who pay for training workshops. Public performances are rarely priced and income from performances are invariably through hat collections, done consciously as a tool to gauge audience appreciation of the show.
Since 2000, the group has been extensively working with youth both at schools and through private workshops. Since 2009, through its youth & teen theatre initiative, Masquerade Youth Theatre (MYT), Masquerade has been conducting Camp Neuve, an annual three week summer workshop that trains teens between ages 13 and 19 years. This leads to an eventual production featuring the workshop participants. Since 2009, through its The Bear and Beanbag Children's Theatre, the group has also been involved in presenting story performance sessions to tweens ages 7 to 11, and in conducting theatre and story telling workshops for children in conjunction with hobby centers and after-school experience centers in Chennai.
Masquerade was written in 1941 by Aram Khachaturian as incidental music for a production of the play of the same name by Russian poet and playwright Mikhail Lermontov. It premiered on 21 June 1941 in the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. The music is better known in the form of a five-movement suite.
Masquerade is the first studio album from Swedish singer Eric Saade. It was first released on 19 May 2010 in Sweden.
Masquerade is a 1965 British comedy thriller film directed by Basil Dearden based on the 1954 novel Castle Minerva by Victor Canning. It stars Cliff Robertson and Jack Hawkinsand was filmed in Spain.
Masquerade is a verse play written in 1835 by the Russian Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov. The four-act play, set in 1830's St. Petersburg aristocratic society, highlights the rebellious spirit and noble mind of the protagonist, Yevgeny Arbenin. It is often compared with Shakespeare's Othello in its essential story line.
"Masquerade" is the 7th episode of the second season of The CW television series, The Vampire Diaries and the 29th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on October 28, 2010. The episode was written by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec and directed by Charles Beeson.
Masquerade is the fourth studio album by the artist The Legendary Tigerman, released in 2006.
Masquerade (; lit. Gwanghae: The Man Who Became King) is a 2012 South Korean historical film starring Lee Byung-hun in dual roles as the bizarre King Gwanghae and the humble acrobat Ha-sun, who stands in for the monarch when he faces the threat of being poisoned.
With 12.3 million tickets sold, this historical movie is currently the sixth highest-grossing movie in Korean film history. Also, it swept the 49th Grand Bell Awards, winning in 15 categories, including Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Actor.
is the sixth Japanese single (counted as fifth) by the South Korean boy band 2PM. It was released in November 14, 2012 in three different editions. The original release day of the single was on August 29, but it was postponed to November 14 due to Nichkhun's car accident controversy.
Masquerade is a single-movement orchestral composition by the British-born composer Anna Clyne. The work was commissioned by the BBC and it was first performed on September 7, 2013 at the Last Night of the Proms by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Marin Alsop. Clyne dedicated the piece to the Proms' concertgoers colloquially known as the "Prommers".
Masquerade is a post-punk band from Finland, formed in late 2012. They have made television appearances on Finnish channels Yle Teema and MTV3. They have toured extensively in Europe, United States of America and Mexico.
Masquerade is a 1941 Soviet drama film directed by Sergey Gerasimov.
Usage examples of "masquerade".
It will be a question as to whether they can hypocritically masquerade as a political party, and strike hands with every agency of force and revolution, and still make simple American people understand they are not sworn enemies of their country and ready to overthrow it.
Was he referring to the way Helse had masqueraded as a boy, hiding her gender identity?
He told her that his friend Helse was not a boy but a girl masquerading as a boy.
But as Spirit understood, she was accustomed to masquerading as a man, and felt uncomfortable in a dress.
If he were to learn his betrothed was masquerading about London as her twin, and with Saxford, it would cause quite a scandal.
The question was, would Nicholas forgive her for masquerading as Angelica?
It was because she was an alien creature masquerading as an android of the opposite sex.
Then Mach understood: this was a self-willed machine masquerading as a mindless one.
The effect was of a Hollywood version of a gangster masquerading as a Suit.
Ralfs of various degrees of obesity they snake-danced, past a 300 pound weakling in a leopard-skin bathing suit masquerading as Charles Atlas they shoved, between the guy in the tinfoil robot suit and a girl in long brown flasher raincoat that looked like it had served as a kleenex for a herd of elephants with eyes looked like she bit the heads off live kittens, through an assortment of ninjas, monsters, Martian drag queens and whatever, and down the stairs to the basement.
The masquerading on the part of the footman was to ensure a way of retreat in case of emergencies.
Headhad been to tell Sachs that he now believed the Ghost was masquerading as John Sung.
There was no way I was going to escape from the beach without masquerading as Sung.
The one whose name is not spoken is Antakh, a Moru who once masqueraded as a Kana and is hated for this.
The lightness of heart which had dressed them in masquerade habits, had decorated their tents, and assembled them in fantastic groups, appeared a sin against, and a provocative to, the awful destiny that had laid its palsying hand upon hope and life.