Noun She could not keep up the masquerade any longer. although she was deeply bored, she maintained a masquerade of polite interest as her guest droned on Verb He was masquerading under a false name.
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Noun
The masquerade was originally scheduled for January of this year, but it was postponed due to the Omicron variant.San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022 Anti-fatness is often a more socially acceptable masquerade for anti-Blackness. Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 26 May 2022 One through line is the carnival tradition, which recurs, chameleon-like, in everything from a eighteenth-century landscape of Dutch Suriname to a crowded village masquerade painted by the mid-century Haïtian artist Sénèque Obin. Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 4 May 2022 Wally Westmore’s makeups and Nellie Manley’s hair supervision are all important in making the spectator accept the masquerade and, at the proper moments, in keeping the audience guessing. Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2022 The masquerade will benefit the Center’s youth programs, including the Sunburst Youth Housing Project.San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022 His masquerade also reveals unexpected lines of kinship. Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 Wynne, who has done legitimate business in the Eastern Bloc, trading in scientific machinery, is persuaded to fly to Moscow, to establish an overt professional link with Penkovsky and, under that masquerade, to bring back sensitive information. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021 Sophie Beckett, the daughter of an earl who is disdainfully treated as a servant by her stepmother, sneaks out to Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball. Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2022
Verb
The hosts believe the institution’s mystique allows fundamentally political actors to masquerade as enlightened and neutral arbiters.New York Times, 25 July 2022 What’s more, unlike anorexia, which may be identified by family members or during regular doctor visits, eating and working out to bulk up may masquerade as healthy habits among men and go unnoticed by others—as well as by the men themselves. Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022 While these centers masquerade as medical clinics, under half report having a licensed medical professional on staff and most don’t offer actual medical services. Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022 Sometimes the interpersonal dynamics between these characters expect the tropes about catty teenagers to do the heavy lifting, but Porter deftly calibrates these scenes as a launching pad to later critique how paternalism can masquerade as activism. Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022 Today, many vendors claim zero-trust capabilities that, in reality, masquerade as a subliminal product ad and turn zero trust into product-centric babble. Benny Lakunishok, Forbes, 25 July 2022 In fact, sometimes, cyclical challenges can masquerade or transform into long term ones. Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 July 2022 Branding covers over those questions, so arbitrary choice can masquerade as preference. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2022 This chewy beauty is as light as a Pinot Noir, and could even masquerade as a Grenache. Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle French, from Old Italian dialect mascarada, from Old Italian maschera mask