disguise
verb (used with object)
to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb.
disguisement
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a word derived from
disguise.
Example Sentences
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No longer was there any disguisement between them.
From Vain Fortune by George (George Augustus) Moore
They were two lambs made up to represent wolves, but the merest child must have seen through the disguisement.
From The Penalty by Howard Chandler Christy
In spring this picture is transformed—suddenly as by the shifting of a panoramic view; or, as upon the stage, the Harlequin and brilliant Columbine emerge from the sober disguisement of their dominoes.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
In the case of Numa this is related as a fact, but it is only a disguisement of the right derived from the ritual books.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
No disguisement of natural form is attempted; and a man's appearance is judged of at its true value.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
