The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who masquerades. vb. (present participle of masquerade English)
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Usage examples of "masquerading".
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.