antimasquern.
/ˈantɪmɑːskə/, /ˈantɪmaskə/, U.S. /ˈæn(t)iˌmæskər/, /ˈæn(t)əˌmæskər/ Now chiefly historical.
A performer in an antimasque (see antimasque n.).
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1623 B. Jonson Time Vindicated sig. A4 (stage direct.) At this the Mutes come in, The Antimasquers.
?c1635 Essex House Masque of 1621 (2000) 18 The Antemaskers beinge calld out by the songe, fall into a daunce.
1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 125 The Anti-Masquers depart: then the Lar Familiaris speaks to the Satyre.
1761 London & Environs Described IV. 73 After this noble troop, came the antimasquers.
1824 T. Gaspey Witch-finder III. ix. 172 You speak, perhaps, of the anti-masquers.
1884 G. Finkenbrink Ess. on Date, Plot & Sources of Shakespere's ‘Midsummer Night's Dream’ 13 The antimaskers are not at all concerned in the action; they are led in to fill up the intervals with a grotesque kind of merriment or..their grotesque dances, and then sink into nothing.
1919 Neophilologus 4 54 In the masque we likewise distinguish two groups of dancers: the maskers and the anti-maskers.
2005 ELH 72 196 The scene turns, the antimasquers disappear and Heroic Virtue makes his speech.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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