masked ball
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of masked ball
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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Missions involved everything from decrypting pictograms to infiltrating a masked ball.
From The Verge ● Sep. 13, 2021
A young man longs to reunite with a beautiful dancer that he met at a masked ball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2019
But the auction is a masked ball crossed with a gladiatorial show in a secret basement.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2019
It stalked revelers at a masked ball in Heinrich Heine’s “Cholera in Paris” and kills the protagonist in Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2017
“Nothing all that special. Just a masked ball that happens to be on Yulemas. And I think you know exactly why you can’t come.”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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