The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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“Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2017
“The Tempest” was performed at the court of King James I, and it may have been intended in part to showcase the multimedia marvels of Jacobean court masques.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2016
This was a 21st-century equivalent of those court masques loved and indulged in by Tudor monarchs.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012
“As You Like It” and “The Tempest” contain festive masques with dancing.
From Washington Post
I am but a poor scholar, Madam; knowing the names and stories of gods and heroes only from songs and masques.
From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee
