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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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
Hardship and neglect had so far altered my appearance that, even had I cared for it, any artificial disguisement was unnecessary.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
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
And go back in what disguisement I might, there was no selling a bootlace, nor begging a crust of bread there—there, where he lived.
From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
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 Anne Burrows Gilchrist
