单词 | masqueraded |
释义 | masqueradedadj.ΚΠ 1678 London Gaz. No. 1348/4 Eight pieces of..taffaty Ribon, all cloth-colour, one ashe, one maskeraded. 2. Disguised in appearance, as at a masquerade. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adjective] > altered in outward form disguised1590 masqueraded1752 1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. (1756) I. 142 A very Considerable Number of masqueraded Shillings..so well disguised, that they passed among the Company for Guineas. 1855 M. F. Tupper Moving On in Lyrics 126 We wake,—and yesterday is thrown behind To play to-day's half-masqueraded part. 1937 C. M. Arensberg Irish Countryman iii. 106 The ‘strawboys’—privileged masqueraded figures whose mock-dangerous invasion of the wedding feast has been dignified to represent a last remnant of a primeval bride-capture. 1977 Y. Menuhin Unfinished Journey vii. 144 For Yaltah's fifteenth birthday there was a surprise party, to which everyone came masqueraded—Aba as a coolie,..I as a Bedouin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1678 |
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