disguisement
- a word derived from disguise.
Example Sentences
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One is the Spanish mantilla; that plain black scarf which forms the sweetest disguisement a woman can put on: by its simplicity, and its obvious utility, it claims our approbation at the first glance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
No, I'll promise you, I sha'n't put on no such disguisement.
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Burney, Fanny
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
God has taken such care that he need take none; none, that is, which consists in disguisement, insincerity, painful hushing-up of his true, grand, initiating nature.
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Gilchrist, Anne Burrows
They seem rather like figures on a Greek vase—a man and two women whom no one but myself could distinguish in their disguisement.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
