Vocabulary Word
Word: masquerade
Definition: wear a mask or disguise; pretend; N: costume party or ball at which masks are worn; pretense; disguise
Definition: wear a mask or disguise; pretend; N: costume party or ball at which masks are worn; pretense; disguise
Sentences Containing 'masquerade'
Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other's masquerade.
On chairs were laid elegant masquerade costumes of blue and white satin.
When Franz recovered his senses, he saw Albert drinking a glass of water, of which, to judge from his pallor, he stood in great need; and the count, who was assuming his masquerade costume.
In countries where masquerades are common, it is a trade to let out masquerade dresses for a night.
Carrasco armed himself in the fashion described, and Tom Cecial, that he might not be known by his gossip when they met, fitted on over his own natural nose the false masquerade one that has been mentioned; and so they followed the same route Don Quixote took, and almost came up with him in time to be present at the adventure of the cart of Death and finally encountered them in the grove, where all that the sagacious reader has been reading about took place; and had it not been for the extraordinary fancies of Don Quixote, and his conviction that the bachelor was not the bachelor, senor bachelor would have been incapacitated for ever from taking his degree of licentiate, all through not finding nests where he thought to find birds.
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