guise
- general external appearance; aspect; semblance: an old principle in a new guise.
- assumed appearance or mere semblance: under the guise of friendship.
- style of dress: in the guise of a shepherd.
- Archaic. manner; mode.
- to dress; attire: children guised as cowboys.
- Scot. and North England. to appear or go in disguise.
Origin of guise
Synonyms for guise
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Related Words for guises
disguise, fashion, show, color, mask, demeanor, shape, aspect, facade, air, dress, simulacrum, mien, cloak, role, semblance, form, showing, pose, frontExamples from the Web for guises
Contemporary Examples of guises
This moral ambiguity is present throughout The Hunger Games, in a myriad of guises.
Which isn't exactly news, but bears repeating and repeating in all its guises and forms.
Historical Examples of guises
She gladly transferred all the power of the realm to her uncles, the Guises.
Henry IV, Makers of HistoryJohn S. C. Abbott
They were headed by one Besme, who had been bred up as a domestic in the family of the Guises.
Fox's Book of MartyrsJohn Foxe
But it was at Amboise that the vengeance of the Guises found its widest scope.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)Henry Martyn Baird
As the summer advanced the perplexities of the Guises increased.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)Henry Martyn Baird
The Guises on one side, and the Huguenots on the other, cannot be controlled.
Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15)Charles Morris
guise
- semblance or pretenceunder the guise of friendship
- external appearance in general
- archaic manner or style of dress
- obsolete customary behaviour or manner
- dialect to disguise or be disguised in fancy dress
- (tr) archaic to dress or dress up
Word Origin for guise
Word Origin and History for guises
guise
late 13c., "style or fashion of attire," from Old French guise "manner, fashion, way," from Frankish *wisa or some similar Germanic source (cf. Old High German wisa "manner, wise;" see wise (n.)). Sense of "assumed appearance" is from 1660s, from earlier meaning "mask, disguise" (c.1500).