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单词 disguisement
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disguisementn.

Etymology: < disguise v. + -ment suffix; compare Old French desguisement, modern French dég-, a disguising, that which serves to disguise.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: disˈguisement.
1. The fact of disguising, or of being disguised.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > act of disguising
misguising1581
disguisement1583
disguising1587
vizarding1609
disguisea1616
disguisal1834
maskinga1933
cover-up1958
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxi. 684 That they might not be put out of countenance by any faire disguisement.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 82 To lend..an old gowne, and a blacke vaile for his disguisement.
a1681 J. Pordage Theologia Mystica (1683) 130 Blessed are they who through all these wiles and disguisements can find him.
1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 57 732 No disguisement of natural form is attempted.
1885 Times 13 Apr. 4/2 Such disguisement was always a direct infraction of international and military law.
2. That which disguises, or whereby disguising is effected; a disguise; a garb that conceals the wearer's identity.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > dress, garb > [noun]
disguising1485
disguisementa1586
disguise1596
fancy dress1770
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiv. sig. I7 Assuring my selfe, that vnder that disguisment, I should find opportunitie to reueal my self to the owner of my harte.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii2v What mister wight..That in so straunge disguizement there did maske.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. iii. 171 Minstrels and persons in disguisements.
1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 38 In this disguisement he was brought into the hall.
1861 T. A. Trollope La Beata II. xvii. 186 To don a black disguisement, and put our own hands to the work of mercy.
3. plural. Additions or accessories that alter the appearance; adornments, bedizenments.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun] > ornamentation or decoration > an ornament
ornamenta1382
paramentc1395
adornmentc1405
flower1542
furniture1548
furniments1553
bravery1577
grace1579
trim1579
honour1589
outsetc1590
parergy1592
trapping1596
adornation1597
parergon1601
accomplishment1605
bellishment1611
facing1622
decorement1632
embellishment1632
gallantry1633
ornamentals1650
disguisements1655
decorationa1678
buska1687
decorament1727
pretty1736
tahalli1833
chicken fixings1840
ornamentality1842
grace note1922
1655 R. Baker et al. tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 105 It hath paintings and disguisements, to alter the purity of all worldly things.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 4 Stripped of all the disguisements, and foreign mixtures cast upon them.
1867 D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 199 If the charming but costly disguisements of a park cannot be ventured upon at once.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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