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antimasque, -mask|ˈæntɪˌmɑːsk, -æ-|
[anti- 2.]
A grotesque interlude between the acts of a masque, to which it served as a foil, and of which it was at first often a burlesque. (Sometimes made antic-masque.).
1613Chapman Inns of Court Plays 1873 III. 107 A company of accomplisht Trauailers..excellent at Antemaskes. 1622B. Jonson Masque of Augurs, We may be admitted, if not for a masque, for an antic-masque. 1625Bacon Masques, Ess. (Arb.) 540 Let Anti-masques not be long: they haue been commonly of Fooles, Satyres, Baboones..Antiques. 1761Lond. & Environs IV. 73 (Jod.) The first antimask consisted of beggars and cripples. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. x. 1903 The impatient antimasque treads close on kibe O'the very masque's self it will mock. |