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masker

American  
[mas-ker, mah-sker] / ˈmæs kər, ˈmɑ skər /
Or masquer

noun

  1. a person who masks; a person who takes part in a masque.


masker British  
/ ˈmɑːskə /

noun

  1. a person who wears a mask or takes part in a masque

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of masker

First recorded in 1540–50; mask + -er 1


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Nor take stock of each new masker to see if he possibly wasn’t the expected Mr. Bransford?

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

“I was talking to the next masker but I saw no light for a moment through the crack by the curtain.”

From Betty Lee, Sophomore by Harriet Pyne Grove

With a great flourish of whip and legs—showing his frilled drawers—the masker pulls round to drive along the boulevard by the sea—the only place where one can drive.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Yes, this curious masker is no other than a reverend abbé, a young canon of the cathedral of Mans!

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Grace Wharton

The light of his candle now fell upon the huge bear whom, after a slight start, he recognized as a masker.

From Boyhood in Norway by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

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