bal masquén.
A masked ball (see masked ball n. at masked adj.2 Compounds 1).
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masked ball1763
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ball-mask1770
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1768 Earl of Carlisle Let. 31 May in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 303 I am going to a great dinner to-day..and after that to a bal masqué at court.
1775 H. Walpole Let. 23 Aug. (1904) IX. 239 On Friday he gives a bal masqué to the universe.
1817 H. C. B. Campbell Journey to Florence 4 Oct. (1951) 101 Afterwards there was a Bal masqué at the Pergola.
1902 G. K. Chesterton Twelve Types 4 A disguise as tawdry and deceptive as the costume of a ‘bal masqué’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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