masquer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It was also one of the most strenuous reportorial masquer ades since the New York World's Nellie Bly feigned madness for ten days in the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before each mounted masquer rode a torch-bearer, whose right hand waved a scourge of flame, instead of a leathern thong.
From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy
No masquer this, but a grim messenger from the Shades, bringing dire warning to one, at least, of that gay company.
From Stories of the Border Marches by Lang, Jeanie
Browning's poems of the love of man and woman are seldom a simple lyrical cry, but they are not on this account the less true in their presentment of that curious masquer and disguiser—Love.
From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward
Having thrown aside his academic robe, each masquer had donned a fantastic dress of silver cloth embroidered with gold lace, gold plate, and ostrich plumes.
From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy
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